This topic comes up every year in discussions so it is worthy of an issue. It can be added to https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/hosting#commits-manage-progress-and-track-changes
Several of us believe we shouldn't be storing font binaries in the repo for the following reasons:
- The binaries may have been built from earlier commits or not the correct build chain
- They take up a lot of space
- They're not diffable.
Font binaries should be stored in tagged releases instead.
This topic comes up every year in discussions so it is worthy of an issue. It can be added to https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/hosting#commits-manage-progress-and-track-changes
Several of us believe we shouldn't be storing font binaries in the repo for the following reasons:
Font binaries should be stored in tagged releases instead.