Re:A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git
by gwern on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @08:17PM
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> But if you store large binary blobs and all of them change often then git won't work that well.
True, default git won't work well. But you can handle large changing files git-style with a different approach; the bup backup system using git comes to mind (see https://github.com/apenwarr/bup & http://lwn.net/Articles/380983/) where what is stored are chunks of files, where xdelta and other diffs work efficiently.
True, default git won't work well. But you can handle large changing files git-style with a different approach; the bup backup system using git comes to mind (see https://github.com/apenwarr/bup & http://lwn.net/Articles/380983/) where what is stored are chunks of files, where xdelta and other diffs work efficiently.