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Data and version control

Open eamcvey opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

A question we discussed that might be nice to include in the future: can/should we version control our data in git/Github? If not, what are the other options?

eamcvey avatar Jan 31 '18 23:01 eamcvey

Seconded! Can there be a section on how to add subdirectories (i.e. /data) to .gitignore? Especially if the data is too large to be uploaded successfully to Github, or better not uploaded to Github.

angela-li avatar Feb 01 '18 23:02 angela-li

"Small" data may well live on GitHub, but for anything larger than, say, 1MB, you want to find a better place. I have suggested using symlinks in https://github.com/jennybc/what-they-forgot/issues/13#issuecomment-362494469, which should also be added to .gitignore.

krlmlr avatar Feb 02 '18 06:02 krlmlr