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A 70GB code base is not something that’s ever supposed to happen. Pretending that’s okay for any product is the actual madness here.
I guarantee you this is the sort of app that accidentally ships 3 full copies of Google Chrome.
In the comments, they state that it is point cloud data for gaussian splatting. I don't know what that is, but I suspect is is information that may not be best handled by git.
Edit: and high fidelity extended reality content.
Edit3: yeah, it looks like they are putting large amounts of binary data in the repo.
Sounds like he needs to lean about databases (or at least, about the fact you don’t commit the database to version control 😅)