{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455/events","html_url":"https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455","id":100178824,"number":455,"title":"Huge repository - maintaining binaries in git","user":{"login":"agherzan","id":1746941,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1746941?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan","html_url":"https://github.com/agherzan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/agherzan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":9,"created_at":"2015-08-10T21:58:33Z","updated_at":"2015-08-11T10:20:15Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hello,\r\n\r\nWe are using this repository for bringing in boot binaries for raspberrypi platforms in yocto build system. Cloning this started to be a real issue as this repository already got over 4GB (4345.67MB). Generally it doesn't make sense to track binaries under git because the git history is getting huge for no advantage. Is raspberry able to provide the firmware \"releases\" as archives? That would save a lot of useless download time for our users.\r\n\r\nRegards,\r\nAndrei"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/comments/129814422","html_url":"https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455#issuecomment-129814422","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/455","id":129814422,"user":{"login":"wm4","id":1387750,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1387750?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4","html_url":"https://github.com/wm4","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wm4/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-11T10:20:15Z","updated_at":"2015-08-11T10:20:15Z","body":"Would this solve the problem? https://git-lfs.github.com/"}}