From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:40:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20110121222440.GA1837@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110123141417.GA6133@mew.padd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pete Wyckoff , Eric Montellese , Jeff King , git list To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 26 22:40:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiD69-0003Z4-1I for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:40:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754229Ab1AZVkO (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:40:14 -0500 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:38824 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754221Ab1AZVkM (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:40:12 -0500 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so1413204wyb.19 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:40:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=6HRFYEL9QZnxWqlkWfw+UzTec0OoCNgiyNTqmfZjlO8=; b=fB4lCKdqblibFIg6mqR0gMT1q1WZznjLp7pvcH/Yb7zN8iekccUuBOxuQM3LFeJ2lo IXuKuhwPWEeahhXHcVXuB2ZJsPJfdKev5vQxoP2V1SHh0GrEoNih01J4WkLL4JOKGDrM pPRBVq/ilTXX9bAP7aMq1CrWFAkI1kd7VIBjE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=X1mhjo/muo1isaYc4pidLd4I3eLKnq7QhkNDCKQvwic3ghCmfCvPzqHWNP+iCnF6bn b69zH8mPHqoMu3uafg8W9nIZdCuHvxtKrJAnAp/LRnaidJZ18LO3XDbvLeWYHN9b9oTs rVQ0Ts+DYlXeCuwWK2J9F/9BTQEXa6WiXe6MQ= Received: by 10.227.72.199 with SMTP id n7mr130383wbj.61.1296078011365; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abve138.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.202.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f27sm408136wbf.1.2011.01.26.13.40.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p0QLdbRb009528; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:39:45 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id p0QLdEeW009523; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:39:14 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Scott Chacon writes: > Sorry to come in a bit late to this, but in addition to git-annex, I > wrote something called 'git-media' a long time ago that works in a > similar manner to what you both are discussing. > > Much like what peff was talking about, it uses the smudge and clean > filters to automatically redirect content into a .git/media directory > instead of into Git itself while keeping the SHA in Git. One of the > cool thing is that it can use S3, scp or a local directory to transfer > the big files to and from. > > Check it out if interested: > > https://github.com/schacon/git-media Could you please add short information about this project to the https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools page, in the "Backups, metadata, and large files" subsection? git-annex is there... Thanks in advance. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git