Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

Posted Dec 11, 2018 23:03 UTC (Tue) by ralt (subscriber, #103458)
Parent article: Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

Hmm... no mention of GVFS? :-)

Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

Posted Dec 11, 2018 23:14 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

What's a GNOME library got to do with this? ;)

Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

Posted Dec 11, 2018 23:23 UTC (Tue) by ralt (subscriber, #103458) [Link]

There are only two hard problems...

GFS (not not that one) AKA VFS for git

Posted Dec 12, 2018 0:16 UTC (Wed) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354) [Link]

you know what, that's true, I totally forgot about GVFS (which we should apparently call "VFS for git" now). That's probably because, first, it just doesn't seem to run on Linux, from what I can tell. To be more precise, it's still at the "prototype" stage, so certainly not something that seems "entreprise-scale" to me.

It could be a promising lead to fix the Debian security team repository size issues, mind you, but then we'd have to figure out how to host the server side of things and I don't know how *that* works either.

Frankly, it looks like a Microsoft thing that's not ready for us mortals, unfortunately. At least the LFS folks had the decency of providing us with usable releases and a test server people could build on top of... But maybe it will become a usable alternative

Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

Posted Jul 27, 2019 19:25 UTC (Sat) by rweaver6 (guest, #128342) [Link]

I came upon this discussion very late, while investigating GVFS/VFSforGit .

VFSforGit was not designed to solve a large-file problem. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/g... .

It was designed to help adapt Git to Microsoft's internal Windows development repository, which was 3.5M files in a zillion directories and branches, 300GB total. Gigantic repository, file size not really the issue. Obviously it will contain some large files as well, but it's not what was limiting their ability to move Windows development to Git.

Whether the file system virtualization provided by VFSforGit *could* be made to help Git also with large files is an interesting question.