Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 10, 2008, 09:58 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811101055020.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200811091955.19304.kai@samba.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Kai Blin wrote:

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> On Sunday 09 November 2008 17:31:47 Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > The workaround is to put all large files for example in 'media/' 
> > folder, and make this folder be submodule. Each clone of repository 
> > can have this 'media' submodule either present (both in object 
> > database, although usually separate from main project object 
> > database), or not present (not cloned and not checked out).
> 
> Tim was talking about that media/ folder and managing that in git. If 
> you want to work on the media, you might end up getting hundreds of 
> gigabytes of data to get that folder, even if you only need to change 
> one single file.
> 
> That's the issue we're running into, and I don't thing submodules solve 
> this at all.

You'd have to have a single repository for each and every media file, and you'd need to use shallow clones and shallow fetches.

However, a push-conflict will probably be beyond any non-programmer skillz.

I'd rather propose to have a different interface, like through a web server, where the user can say "I have some cool new graphics, in this .zip file" together with a commit message.

Kind of a git-gui via browser.

Ciao, Dscho