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Remove binaries from the git history

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the linked database issue #105 and reviewing the repository history to identify the ROMs and binaries in scope. Done means agreeing on which binary assets should be removed and cleaning them from the git history without losing the intended source database.

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Description

E.g. following https://github.com/gbdev/database/issues/105 we may want to clean up ROMs and binaries from the git history

Dominant language
C
Stars
95
Forks
52
Avg merge
7h 33m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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