Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ?

On Monday 10 November 2008 10:58:05 Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Hi Dscho,

quoted

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. But at some point a developer will want to check out 
the repository to cut a release tarball, and we're back to wanting shallow 
and narrow clones. :)

Cheers,
Kai

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