NMML/R-User-Meetings — comment on commit 966dd5ebc203514f004a32410a71aad5a25ed410
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By jlaake:

On 2/14/2012 6:19 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> I recommend you to put binary files such as PDF to the [Downloads](../downloads/) section to avoid extra burden to GIT, because GIT saves all changes in history, and for binary files, there is no way to only save the difference between two commits as it does to text files.
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I am cognizant of that fact and for things like package binaries I keep
them in the downloads section of the repository and I refrain from
tracking binary data etc. That repository is a little different as I
only add to it and so far have not made many changes. There are 2
things on github I'd like to see to make it more usable. Firstly, a
better structured download page because I've had problems with folks
downloading the package zip instead of the package binary which is in
the list of download files. They see the download as zip button and hit
it thinking they are getting what they want. The second feature that
would be useful, would be a flush capability that would remove any
previously deleted file. With that you could delete tracked binaries,
add them again and then flush to recover the disk space. To do that
right now, you have to delete the repository and recreate it which isn't
difficult but then you lose all tracked changes. Would not be that
important for this repository so I'll probably do that if I start making
many changes.

regards --jeff