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Ask HN: What's your favorite non-programming related use of Git?

by stackola on 3/23/19, 9:00 PM with 3 comments

• by spricket on 3/24/19, 12:39 AM

  Using GitHub as a versioned file storage. I know it's not the best option, not even good, but it's usually so easy if your files are less than 100mb.

  If they're bigger, you can abuse their "release" logic to upload files up to like 2gb.

  Yeah there's S3 and stuff but the GIT CLI client makes it much easier to tape some shit together in a pinch. Bonus for raw.github serving for files over vanilla http

• by lockjawh on 3/23/19, 10:59 PM

  While maybe akin to programming, prior to using Overleaf I would use TeX to collaboratively typeset homework via git.

• by zoobab on 3/23/19, 9:08 PM

  gitbook, books automatically generated from git.