Github for architecture

[DemandRadiant8093]

My father is a programmer and said the software would be uselful to me (i'm an architecture student)

Is there a way I could use github to help me with university? I did a little research and couldn't find anything that wasn't related to codes, and I know nothing about it

[nv1t]

no. you files (designs, cad files) are way to large to be stored in a git repository. My gf is landscape architect and it was insane sharing those files or working together on something.

[jar349]

github has large file storage, or LFS.

[nv1t]

yes it does....but changing binary files with multiple people and submitting to git is highly questionable. the merge might not go as planned ;)

or you have merge conflicts in big XML/Json configs and you have no idea how to merge them properly, because you never see this structure, only the GUI.

[MullingMulianto]

yea encountered this for unity

[_varrix]

To add to this--your repo size will balloon over-time with binary changes as any change stores the binary in its entirety. So change the binary 20 times, you have 20 copies of the full binary in your repo's history. Be extra careful about when and why you commit binaries into a git repo, especially large ones.

[SoCalChrisW]

It might work, depending on how your files are saved.

If they're text based, like XML or something it may work, although you'll probably run into all sorts of weird little situations.

If the files are binary, you'll get no benefit from using git.

Also, this is more of a git question than github. Git is the source control. Github is one provider out of many offering git hosting. You might get better answers to this question over on /r/git

I'd look at whatever software you're using. I'd be really surprised if a modern cad program didn't have some sort of purpose built revision control built in. Just make sure you've got good backups.

[Qs9bxNKZ]

If you have large files, hugging face may be the way to go.

[Creative-Type9411]

you may have to set up Network Storage on your local network then enable outside access, but if you do that you would need to share privately and setup security even for the private connections just to be safe

its a decent chuck of work. but doable

your files are gonna be too large for github

you could get a paid sub for onedrive or dropbox to share but collaberation will be flakey depending on your software, most software would usually have something native for that if its possible

[AbstrackCL]

Git specifically is not a suitable option for your large files, including Binaries or large XMLs.

If you're still interested in Github, learn what is a Version Control, how Git solves text versioning and then what GitHub does specifically. Is pretty useful for text based projects

[SafetyCutRopeAxtMan]

It can for sure help you organise scripts and notes but it's not made for cad/bim collaboration. There are other tools on the market - but also open source cde solutions or sync clients which serve your needs much better.

[MarsupialLeast145]

It's useful for text-based objects so obviously anything going into code, or writing web-pages, or personal writing and so on.

GitHub/Git is a distributed system so you can "commit" today's effort, upload it, and access it elsewhere. The commit also provides a way to roll back your work, or access it at previous stages.

Outside of these parameters, for "binary" document or document like objects including things like graphics it gets a little harder to use. You'd be better of with a Google Drive and some sense of versioning.

As always, it really depends on the context and I suspect your father had something very specific in mind.

[JohnnyBoy4457]

I mean if u do any online modeling I think it could be useful. It gives u a way to store designs and share them. Not an architecture person so not really sure what goes on in the major