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billconan
does this support all file types? psd? png? avi? mp4?

possible to merge changes?

emielvl
Currently Folio supports psd, sketch, ai as well as png, jpg, tiff, dng and gif.
pketh
With binary files and git, am I saving all the previous versions in the tree locally (which could get huge fast), or just the diffs?
pilif
Binary diffs. But depending on the file, it might not really be of much help (I know for a fact that Adobe premiere projects for example are nearly completely different every time you save).
emielvl
Folio uses git internally and as such is based on binary diffs. To tackle the issue of an ever-growing repository, we're looking into integrating git-lfs which supports offloading blobs from the repository.
billconan
So is there a way to achieve collaboration? if this is based on binary diffs, can we still have merging?
huac
I wonder the benefit of using Git over Dropbox for a designer for this purpose.
stephenr
A git repo can be hosted wherever you like. Dropbox, not so much.
huac
That's not wrong, of course, but I wonder for how many designers that portability is an important value.
stephenr
Well I don't know how much they care about it. But fat kids don't care that cake is bad for them either.