git history really big, consider making new repos for each semester about data8assets HOT 9 OPEN

We totally should do this. We could archive this repo, and then just have a new repo here that just has squashed history. Or just have a specific repo per semester as @SamLau95 mentioned. I think having a full checkout here for each student is going to cause problems with the fall infrastructure.

@SamLau95 @papajohn objections to doing this?

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@yuvipanda Sounds like a great idea!

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On it! @papajohn

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Thanks @vinitra. I see the new materials repo, and it's at 90M - which is much better! It looks like you deleted old files as a commit - data-8/materials-fa17@ae3fcd3. Since git keeps all history, deleting like this doesn't actually reduce the size of the repo! You should use something like https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository/. Let's do that before classes start - am happy to spend some time with you to get it done.

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@yuvipanda thanks for the insight! I think I fixed it... can you confirm?

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Nope, it's still there: data-8/materials-fa17@51bbdfd

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@vinitra I've done some force pushing and cleaned it out. People who had clones locally might have to re-clone - let me know if people run into issues and I can help.

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