From: Shawn Pearce Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:56:10 GMT Subject: Re: [JGIT] Problem using API to create a repository in Amazon S3 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1306833290555-6421952.post@n2.nabble.com> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:14, DCWoods wrote: > I am writing an application that I want to be able to control git using > Amazon S3 for the storage.  I want the application to be able to create a > new git repository in S3, commit files that are created dynamically by the > application, and then later update and retrieve them. You can't really use a repository on S3, you can only fetch from it or push to it. So you would need to have a local repository that has a copy of everything, work on the local repository, and at specific "checkpoints" push the local repository to S3 for backups. -- Shawn.