I dunno if their solution is any better but it's fairly unarguable that LFS is bad.
1. It is a separate tool that has to be installed separately from git
2. It works by using git filters and git hooks, which need to be set up locally.
Something built in to git doesn't have those problems.
But GP's point was that there is an entire other category of errors with git-lfs that are eliminated with this more native approach. Git-lfs allows you to get into an inconsistent state e.g. when you interrupt a git action that just doesn't happen with native git.
The architecture does seem to still be in the general framing of "treat large files as special and host them differently." That is the crux of the problem in the first place.
I think it would shock no one to find that the official system also needs to be enabled and also falls back to a mode where it supports fetching and merging pointers without full file content.
I do hope all the UX problems will be fixed. I just don't see them going away naturally and we have to put our trust in the hope that the git maintainers will make enjoyable, seamless and safe commands.
Mostly I did not run into such use case but in general I don’t see any upsides trying to shove some big files together with code within repositories.
That is why I don’t understand why people „need to use GIT”.
You still can make something else like keeping versions and keeping track of those versions in many different ways.
You can store a reference in repo like a link or whatever.
Yes because Git currently is not good at tracking large file. That's not some fundamental property of Git; it can be improved.
Btw it isn't GIT.
Wanting to split up the project into multiple storage spaces is inherently hostile to managing the project. People want it together because it's important that it stays together as a basic function of managing a project of digital files. The need to track and maintain digital version numbers and linking them to release numbers and build plans is just a requirement.
That's what actual, real projects demand. Any projects that involve digital assets is going to involve binary, often large, data files. Any projects that involve large tables of pre-determined or historic data will involve large files that may be text or binary which contain data the project requires. They won't have everything encompassed by the project as a text file. It's weird when that's true for a project. It's a unique situation to the Linux kernel because it, somewhat uniquely, doesn't have graphics or large, predetermined data blocks. Well, not all projects that need to be managed by git share 100% of the attributes of the Linux kernel.
This idea that everything in a git project must be all small text file is incredibly bizarre. Are you making a video game? A website? A web application? A data driven API? Does it have geographic data? Does it required images? Video? Music or sound? Are you providing static documentation that must be included?
So the choices are:
1. Git is useful general purpose VCS for real world projects. 2. Git does not permit binary or large files.
Tracking versioning on large files is not some massively complex problem. Not needing to care about diffing and merging simplifies how those files are managed.
There are other tools for managing projects and better ways to version large files or binary assets.
Git is great at handling text changes and that’s it. It sucks with binary blobs.