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		jameshart 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of large files in Git is Git Nit: > if I git clone a repo with many revisions of a noisome 25 MB PNG file FYI ‘noisome’ is not a synonym for ‘noisy’ - it’s more of a synonym for ‘noxious’; it means something smells bad.

williadc 6 months ago | [–]

I believe that was the author's intent.

jameshart 6 months ago | | [–]

I guess maybe it’s the nonstandard sMEL chunk that bumps the size of the PNG file up so high. Seemed more to me that they were talking about an image of random noise though.

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