Re: Git and Amazon S3

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Aneurin Price [off-list ref] wrote:

It looks like the cheapest option from a pure storage and data-transfer point of
view would be S3, so I'm looking at the best way to use it with git. So far, the
options I've found are either using jgit, which I've never used but appears to
have a native S3 transport, or using one of the FUSE options to mount S3 as a
filesystem.

Does anyone have any remarks about these options? Is there a better option -

I guess it might exceed your costs, but you could use a small EC2
instance backed by an EBS volume. The instance would have git
installed.

When you need to push, fire up the instance, push to git running on
that instance, then shutdown the instance and snapshot the EBS volume
to S3.

Hmm, maybe that's over-engineered. :-)

j.