git is very very slow when tracking large binary files

Question

My project is six months old and git is very very slow. We track around 30 files which are of size 5 MB to 50 MB. Those are binary files and we keep them in git. I believe t

Answer 1

One way of speeding things up is to use the --depth 1 flag. See the man page for details. I am not a great git guru but I believe this says do the equivalent of a p4 get or an svn get, that is it give you only the latest files only instead of "give me all of the revisions of all the files through out all time" which is what git clone does.