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Re: git with large files...

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Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>
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Jul 21, 2012, 07:11 UTC
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Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for deployement. And, for a configuration management system as puppet this could be a sensible thing to do - reduce load, scalability ecc.

Best regards
2012/7/21, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
>> <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Darek" == Darek Bridges <darek.bridges@me.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the
>>> Darek> workflow to use git for deployment.
>>>
>>> Don't.
>>
>> Heh. Best to keep in mind that it just doesn't work very well.
>> git-bigfiles, git-annex might help you, but look at the docs and
>> caveats carefully.
>>
>> Perhaps use rsync, unison work better for you.
>
> I'm not sure if it was the "big files" part that Randal was responding
> to.  IIUC it was the "using git for deployment" part.
>
> Packaging tools (Makefiles, .rpm, .deb, etc) are a better suited for
> deploying software.
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> David
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  1. Darek BridgesJul 20, 2012
  2. Randal L. SchwartzJul 20, 2012
  3. Martin LanghoffJul 20, 2012
  4. David AguilarJul 21, 2012
  5. Elia PintoJul 21, 2012
  6. Martin LanghoffJul 21, 2012
  7. Elia PintoJul 21, 2012
  8. Elia PintoJul 22, 2012
  9. Kalle LaunialaJul 22, 2012
  10. NickJul 21, 2012
  11. Martin LanghoffJul 21, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2012
  13. Sitaram ChamartyJul 23, 2012
  14. Kalle LaunialaJul 23, 2012
  15. Drew NorthupJul 29, 2012

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