/xee/vendor/ is 400MB and probably better be in a separated repository

[sjehuda]

Greetings.

I advise to place directory in another directory.

This is particularly crucial when people from areas with limited bandwidth attempt to install Xee from source (e.g. Archlinux, Gentoo, Slackware, et cetera).

I am not an expert with git, so the following statement might be impossible.

It be better to remove all consequent logs of /xee/vendor/ if it be removed from this repository.

Alternatively, create a new repository of Xee, with only relevant files for expected operation.

[faassen]

I hadn't thought of that use case. Nonetheless any Rust install from source will result in a lot of download already due to dependencies.

Creating a new repo is a lot of work, I don't know whether there is another way to remove this data from git history though.

[sjehuda]

Fine. Never mind. Package maintainers would care for that task. That data is unusually valuable, nevertheless. Shall we conclude this issue?

[amarant]

You can use git submodule to link the test repository with a specific commit.
And you can use git-filter-repo to rewrite the history without the directory.

[sjehuda]

Arnaud. May you add instructions to document "README"?