Question

I am doing a video player. I have the following in my project folder:

these four dirs should each be on their own line:
/source
/sample_applications
/images
/videos

Right now the repo just includes the /source directory…which is code only.

It is on my local computer. I am thinking of adding it to git hub.

My question is: should I add the sample apps, the images and the videos to the repo? Is that something that people normally do and that other people want people to do? Can git even handle videos(noob here)?

Answer 1

Here is a similar question on stack overflow:

Managing large binary files with git

In short, yes it can handle binary files (read video), but if they are large it might be a hassle for people when they initially clone your repo. If they are small, and will be useful for programmers using your program in most situations, then it may be a good idea to add them to a repo. If they are large and necessary there is a discussion on that page about using a git-submodule to manage the video part of the repo.