Best practice to store .jar files in VCS (SVN, Git, …)

Question

I know, in the time of Maven it is not recommended to store libraries in VCS, but sometimes it makes sense, though.

My question is how to best store them - compresse

Answer 1

You can use similar solution as found in answers to "Uncompress OpenOffice files for better storage in version control" question here on SO, namely using clean / smudge gitattribute using rezip as filter to store *.jar files uncompressed.