From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:27:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [Question] Alternative to git-lfs under go
Message-ID: <20180917192753.GF140909@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <008d01d44ebc$0d668df0$2833a9d0$@nexbridge.com>

Hi,

Randall S. Becker wrote:

> Does anyone know whether it is practical to rework git-lfs under a language
> other than "go"? GCC is not even close to being possible to port to my
> NonStop platform (may have tried, some have died - joke -  trying). I would
> like to convert this directly to C or something more widely portable. Is
> there a protocol doc out there I can reference?

Can you say more about the context?  You might like

 git clone --filter=blob:limit=512m <repo>

which tells Git to avoid downloading any blobs larger than 512 megabytes
until you know they need them.  See Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
for more details.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan