alt Hacker News> This is probably the smarter way actually.
Oh definitely. How can you suggest adding a binary to a git repository? It's a bad idea on many levels: it bloats the repository by several orders of magnitude, and it locks you to the chosen architecture and OS. Nope, nope, nope.
The issue with binaries is when they are large, change often, is often a duplication of information already present, and that you can't diff them. A program is neither large, it doesn't change often, is not duplicate information and you don't want to diff them. IMHO this idea is fine, this is not added the build artifact in every commit type of situation.