Re: lilypond source and music sheet database

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 04/06/2013 10:50 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
> The things is, use git for tracking source files, not pdfs.  If you
> put \version statements in all your .ly files, you can always recreate
> a pdf with appropriate LilyPond version.
> 
> Actually, it might make sense to track some pdfs as well, but i'd say
> only the versions that are somewhat final, and i'd create two
> repositories: one with sources, in which all pdfs would be ignored,
> and another one with finished ("published") versions of pdfs - ones
> that are supposed to change rarely.

Good call.  The trouble with versioning binary or binary-ish files is not so
much about diffs in the sense of being able to see what has changed (e.g. bzr
with the qbzr plugin does nice side-by-side before and after comparison of
graphics files) but that because it can't be diff'd, each new version almost
always adds an amount of data the size of the entire file to the version 
history.

So, if you keep updating the version of a particular binary file, you wind up
with a repo whose size is out of all proportion to the size of the checked-out
tree :-(