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291 points steveklabnik | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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TinkersW ◴[22 Oct 25 22:45 UTC] No.45676111[source]▶
Does it work with large binary files and not choke like git? Cause git may have won for webdev etc, but in some industries such as gamedev, Perforce is the king... git is barely used at all because it can't handle binary files worth a damn(yes I know about the large file extension, no it isn't sufficient).
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jasonpeacock ◴[22 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45676394[source]▶
Perforce’s binary support is basically equivalent to Git LFS, it does the same thing.

What does Perforce binary support have that Git LFS doesn’t?

AFAIK, the base issue that Perforce is already in use and it has enterprise support.

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1. dafelst ◴[23 Oct 25 01:08 UTC] No.45677079[source]▶
I am the last person to ever promote perforce, but as of last yearish it has the option for binary delta transfer using fastCDC.

Even without that, it is a just straight up a lot faster than git lfs. I know this because I benchmark it against git pretty frequently as I am creating my own large file capable VCS.