Re:Darke Files is a version control and file synchronization...
by throwaway290 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:59AM
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How would you deduplicate on the client at all?
If I have multiple copies of the same file in different subdirectories, and I need all of them for work, there's no way around storing all of them as multiple copies on my machine, right? Unless you do some symlinking or hardlinking magic, but that will likely break platform and software compatibility so I wouldn't want it to happen either...
Similar with history, how can I have my cake (not have previous versions occupy space locally) and eat it too (have them readily available locally without download)?
Or do you mean something like chunking binary files and then deduping chunks? Is it an LFS limitation, or simply that no Git LFS client/server implementation does it yet? It's still fairly new after all.
If I have multiple copies of the same file in different subdirectories, and I need all of them for work, there's no way around storing all of them as multiple copies on my machine, right? Unless you do some symlinking or hardlinking magic, but that will likely break platform and software compatibility so I wouldn't want it to happen either...
Similar with history, how can I have my cake (not have previous versions occupy space locally) and eat it too (have them readily available locally without download)?
Or do you mean something like chunking binary files and then deduping chunks? Is it an LFS limitation, or simply that no Git LFS client/server implementation does it yet? It's still fairly new after all.