Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ?

> On Monday 10 November 2008 10:58:05 Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Ok, I agree. But you could work around that by teaching the artists to 
> fetch/rebase/push instead of just pushing, or hiding this in the GUI. If 
> there's a conflict on a binary data file you're screwed anyway. :)

> > 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.
> 
> Incidentally I'm currently working on something like this, just aimed at 
> the "artist side", instead of the VCS side. This certainly is a useable 
> solution for artists.