Re: Better big file support & GSoC

From: Jonathan Michalon <johndescs@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2011, 16:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20110404185335.2daa5a6a@RunningPinguin.chalmion.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110402153008.GA5921@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>

Le Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:30:15 +0200, Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> a écrit :

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> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 04:40:51PM +0200, Jonathan Michalon wrote:
> > What I personally would like as a feature is the ability to store the main
> > repo with sources etc. into a conventional repo but put the data elsewhere
> > on a storage location. This would allow to develop programs which need data
> > to run (like textures in games etc.) without making the repo slow, big or
> > just messy.
> 
>  This sounds a lot like like what git-annex [0] does. Maybe
>  integrating its functionality with mainline git could be a good
>  start.
> 
> [0] http://git-annex.branchable.com/
> 
>    cmn

Edit: Hum I just failed to reply correcly... did only to the original poster, not the whole list. My apologies.

Message: Yes, for sure. I will try to reuse as much code as possible, and digging into some which does almost the job will help. But in fact I doubt that it will be very comparable both as separate software and integrated code. In addition Eric Montellese dug already into the code but was not completely satisfied. See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165395

I would like to have the opinion of the community before going in the wrong direction.

-- Jonathan Michalon