The old renders are there on purpose. Early reviewers have links pinned to specific filenames, and a few citations point at specific editions — pull the old PDFs and all of that breaks. Keeping them live is just the cost of not 404'ing people who already cited the thing.
You're right that binaries in git isn't pretty, and Git LFS is the cleaner fix — I'll get to it. But it's a deliberate tradeoff, not me treating the repo like a photo album.
The old renders are there on purpose. Early reviewers have links pinned to specific filenames, and a few citations point at specific editions — pull the old PDFs and all of that breaks. Keeping them live is just the cost of not 404'ing people who already cited the thing.
You're right that binaries in git isn't pretty, and Git LFS is the cleaner fix — I'll get to it. But it's a deliberate tradeoff, not me treating the repo like a photo album.