Re: Git for games working group

From: John Austin <john@astrangergravity.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2018, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+AhR6crT2AoJcoGAGA0_c_XdL-0ozHUXTuDrS67tzrTvRLQZw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180914190025.GJ55140@syl>

Hey Taylor,

Great to have your support! I think LFS has done a great job so far solving the large file issue. I've been working myself on strategies for handling binary conflicts, and particularly how to do it in a git-friendly way (ie. avoiding as much centralization as possible and playing into the commit/branching model of git). I've got to a loose design that I like, but it'd be good to get some feedback, as well as hearing what other game devs would want in a binary conflict system.

- John
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:00 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

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> Hi John,
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:55:39AM -0700, John Austin wrote:
> > Is anyone interested in contributing/offering insights? I suspect most
> > folks here are git users as is, but if you know someone stuck on
> > Perforce, I'd love to chat with them!
>
> I'm thrilled that other folks are interested in this, too. I'm not a
> video game developer myself, but I am the maintainer of Git LFS. If
> there's a capacity in which I could be useful to this group, I'd be more
> than happy to offer myself in that capacity.
>
> I'm cc-ing in brian carlson, Lars Schneider, and Preben Ingvaldsen on
> this email, too, since they all server on the core team of the project.
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>