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Re:What's New in Mercurial 3.0 by mintplant on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @07:36PM (#7670637)
Check out git-annex: https://git-annex.branchable.com/how_it_works/

It operates under a similar principle (committing hashes rather than file contents) but stores the actual file contents elsewhere rather than using a compression/deduplication within the repo itself.

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Re:What's New in Mercurial 3.0 by colechristensen on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @07:39PM (#7670652)
I have.

It's neat, but it's more about replacing something like Dropbox than it is replacing git (despite being based on git). It also isn't particularly stable, though I have nothing but respect for the developer.

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Re:What's New in Mercurial 3.0 by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @07:46PM (#7670680)
As I understand it, it became something to replace Dropbox after Joey realized that git-annex's task of distributed storage of large files intersected with the Dropbox use-case, but it didn't start that way, and IMHO doesn't exclude the parent's suggestion.

I backed Joey's kickstarter, but to my shame I have yet to give git-annex-assistant a spin.

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