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This has to be a joke.
GitHub is owned by microsoft. So just use onedrive, a system actually designed for storing files.
Git is terrible for binary files and karge files. So even if you self host a git repo, you are probably going to have a bad time.
You say that like SharePoint is any better which OneDrive is a front end for.
Id say it probably is.
For single user backing up, archiving, cloud access for binary files... yeh, sharepoint/onedrive probably IS better than git.
BUT, i say that with 0 experience of using either for that. I use git for text, and i havent had the "pleasure" of onedrive/sharepoint.
But i have a feeling that onedrive/sharepoint will have an edge over git as a cloud drive system. Even if its just from a tooling/integration standpoint
Large files is actually what git-lfs was made for. I haven’t used it extensively but the project has been around for quite a while (implying some measure of stability/userbase). I heard about it over ten years ago.
But your point still stands. GitHub isn’t the solution unless you have few files that you don’t mind being public (because I think GitHub has exposed private repos before).
Yeh, there are workarounds for large & binary files.
Git-LFS stores a pointer to the file that is stored elsewhere.
So... you have a git repo of files that point to somewhere that stores the actual files.
Great if your graphics/assets pipeline or whatever stores the files somewhere, and your codebase uses those assets.
Not great as the primary system to replace google/microsoft drive.
Might as well just have/use something that stores the actual files.
Better yet, use an end-to-end encrypted service so that they can't use everything you store there as AI training material.