On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser <rosser....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The > > first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with additional > > data storage". My initial reaction to that is "so, it is basically > > just git". My second reaction is "why does additional data storage > > somehow make git (a distributed version control system) even _more_ > > distributed?". > > > > I might be misremembering, but I think Dist-Git was originally short > for "Distribution Git". It was the first attempt to marry a binary > store to Git, predating git-annex and Git LFS by several years. > Ha, okay, actually, "distribution Git" makes more sense. Thank you! I've changed it in the README. clime > > Unlike VCSes like CVS and SVN, Git does not handle binaries very well, > and so they needed to be moved out of the VCS into an external store. > This was the first attempt at it, and it works, though no one else > ever adopted it due to some of the clunkiness with it (the undefined > sources file format, inability to cleanly define where the sources are > actually stored, etc.). > > Those issues could probably be solved today, but I don't think anyone > really cares to fix that in a way where Dist-Git would integrate more > cleanly into Git itself. > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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