Re: Git and Amazon S3

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2010, 16:34 UTC
Message-ID: <76718491002020834k5a666a2eh935d6aced9f8d216@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <501db8661002020556k2f65add2rf06b289f2c9cbcac@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> wrote:

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> It looks like the cheapest option from a pure storage and data-transfer point of
> view would be S3, so I'm looking at the best way to use it with git. So far, the
> options I've found are either using jgit, which I've never used but appears to
> have a native S3 transport, or using one of the FUSE options to mount S3 as a
> filesystem.
>
> Does anyone have any remarks about these options? Is there a better option -

I guess it might exceed your costs, but you could use a small EC2 instance backed by an EBS volume. The instance would have git installed.

When you need to push, fire up the instance, push to git running on that instance, then shutdown the instance and snapshot the EBS volume to S3.

Hmm, maybe that's over-engineered. :-)

j.