Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?

Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by syndicatedjelly on Sunday December 10, 2023 @11:51AM (#38592863)

Does Git LFS help with this problem?

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by robaato on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:20PM (#38593115)

Have seen various teams have major issues with LFS - becoming quite a support overhead to keep art teams productive.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by flohofwoe on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#38593135)

Yeah exactly this. Git LFS is supposed to fix the problem, but I haven't seen it working flawlessly either yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by syndicatedjelly on Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:46PM (#38594330)

Interesting, I had issues using Git LFS to store images for my personal site. I thought I just didn't know how to use it properly...

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by jzl on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:47PM (#38593302)

Not Git LFS, but Git VFS, now replaced by “Scalar”:

https://github.com/microsoft/scalar

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by sireat on Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:14PM (#38593532)

Overall LFS feels a very hacky tacked on solution with warts.

Git LFS is horrible if you mistakenly add some file(s) to LFS.

Restoring to LFS-less state is supposed to be easy but it is always very painful.

There should be a way to tell repo - I do not want any LFS at all. In practice this is painful, and it is easier to start a new repo....

Also for some reason Github/Microsoft decided to "monetize" LFS. The freebie limits are 1GB for hosting AND transfer! Then the charges get very expensive.

I am not sure why Github LFS is priced like some AWS S3 plan not OneDrive plan.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by vtbassmatt on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:46PM (#38594881)

GitHub charges for LFS and has since they initially introduced it, way before Microsoft was involved. Also, the pricing model is changing and will include a minimum of 10GiB for free (250GiB for Team/Enterprise customers). It’s cost-recovery and abuse-prevention, though, not some nefarious scheme. And funny you mention AWS S3... what costs might GitHub be recovering? ;)

Microsoft’s homegrown LFS implementation (in Azure DevOps) does not and has never charged for LFS. It’s nice to have friends with a cloud blob storage service!

Source: I was the product manager for Azure Repos’s LFS server and am currently the product manager for all things Git at GitHub.

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