Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ?

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Kai Blin wrote:

On Sunday 09 November 2008 17:31:47 Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

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