Re:Kactus: Design version control without changing tools
by MaulingMonkey on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:16PM
(#16461195)
> Github is just not interested in becoming an hosting provider for such files.
That's a strange claim given that they authored git lfs in the first place and run servers for it.
> That said, I prefer git-annex to LFS, since it doesn't need a custom server; you can just use a "dumb" file server (rsync, webdav, S3, etc), with all the metadata being synced over the git repo.
Significantly better multi-remote support as well from what I can tell, which would make transitioning or partially transitioning significantly easier. OTOH, no filters so you'll be manually spamming `git annex get` as I understand it: http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/smudge/
That's a strange claim given that they authored git lfs in the first place and run servers for it.
> That said, I prefer git-annex to LFS, since it doesn't need a custom server; you can just use a "dumb" file server (rsync, webdav, S3, etc), with all the metadata being synced over the git repo.
Significantly better multi-remote support as well from what I can tell, which would make transitioning or partially transitioning significantly easier. OTOH, no filters so you'll be manually spamming `git annex get` as I understand it: http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/smudge/