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Asked: 2026-06-15T10:25:16+00:00

I’m using git to manage a relatively large set of binary files. It’s a

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I’m using git to manage a relatively large set of binary files. It’s a mix of a few thousand eps, png, jpg, gif, pdf files and a few small text files totaling over 53GB. I find that git is kind of slow. Sure, lots of folks say “don’t use git” and that’s fine.

I’ve ready about using .gitattributes or .git/info/attributes to set git to not do a delta on these files with syntax like:

*.jpg -delta

However, I haven’t read exactly where that needs to go. Two questions:

  1. Add that to the .gitattributes file that is checked into the repository?
  2. Would it help to have it in the .git/info/attributes/ in my central repository?

My experience is that performance is pretty slow for both new clones of this repository AND for commits of many files and/or large files.

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to gitattributes(5):

    If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user’s workflow for that repository), then attributes should be placed in the $GIT_DIR/info/attributes file. Attributes which should be version-controlled and distributed to other repositories (i.e., attributes of interest to all users) should go into .gitattributes files.

    I.e., your option (1).

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