Comment by jameshart
1 day ago
Nit:
> if I git clone a repo with many revisions of a noisome 25 MB PNG file
FYI ‘noisome’ is not a synonym for ‘noisy’ - it’s more of a synonym for ‘noxious’; it means something smells bad.
1 day ago
Nit:
> if I git clone a repo with many revisions of a noisome 25 MB PNG file
FYI ‘noisome’ is not a synonym for ‘noisy’ - it’s more of a synonym for ‘noxious’; it means something smells bad.
I believe that was the author's intent.
I guess maybe it’s the nonstandard sMEL chunk that bumps the size of the PNG file up so high. Seemed more to me that they were talking about an image of random noise though.