Yea, it's all mounted on the system like any other drive, very similar to FUSE and running through a webdav server. So on the server side it's just copying and retrieving files from a directory, the only difference is there is a bit of lag in and out.
On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 1:51:56 PM UTC-5, chris wrote: > > Sorry, I'm not familiar with Box. If you've mounted it on the filesystem > though (some FUSE module perhaps?) than to your build scripts it > "should" look and behave like any other POSIXy path. Otherwise you may > have to write some code yourself to interface with Box. > > Cheers, > -Chris > > Chris Tonkinson > Forge Software > ch...@forgecrafted.com <javascript:> > 800.875.3048 x1 > > "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but > when there is nothing left to take away." > -Antoine de Saint-Exupery > > On 11/11/2014 10:36 AM, Ryan W wrote: > > Yea, scripts that push them to S3 is exactly what I'd be looking for. I > > have our box.com drive mounted on the gitlab server(/media/box/) > through > > davfs2 so the other option would be just to move the large binary files > > to that drive. Could this be problematic you think or would it be just > > the same as pushing it to S3? We pay for the Box space so may as well > > use it I figure. > > > > On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:20:20 AM UTC-5, chris wrote: > > > > If these large binary artifacts are derived data, I wouldn't keep > them > > in the repository at all. If they are semi-transient data (say, > recent > > builds) I might consider a script to push them on S3 or similar with > a > > reasonable expiry. > > > > Otherwise... if it's in the repo... it's on the disk for Gitlab. And > > assuming these assets are not compressible, you're out of luck. > > > > Chris Tonkinson > > Forge Software > > ch...@forgecrafted.com <javascript:> > > 800.875.3048 x1 > > > > "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but > > when there is nothing left to take away." > > -Antoine de Saint-Exupery > > > > On 11/11/2014 07:32 AM, Ryan W wrote: > > > In the same vein as my previous post I was curious if you guys > could > > > share some strategies to keep the disk usage to a minimum? We > > host git > > > repo's that contain a lot of large binary files and while I've > > read that > > > git-annex would be a great solution however it doesn't seem to be > > > supported with gitlab so that's a no go :( I've read a bit about > > > git-prune so that's on my radar but anything else you guys could > > > recommend would be most appreciated. > > > > > > thanks! > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "GitLab" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > > send > > > an email to gitlabhq+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > > <mailto:gitlabhq+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/405b07c6-70c7-4ecb-a3cb-43977164e2ec%40googlegroups.com > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/405b07c6-70c7-4ecb-a3cb-43977164e2ec%40googlegroups.com> > > > > > > > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/405b07c6-70c7-4ecb-a3cb-43977164e2ec%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/405b07c6-70c7-4ecb-a3cb-43977164e2ec%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>>. > > > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "GitLab" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to gitlabhq+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > <mailto:gitlabhq+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/92e81e55-42b4-4127-ad57-2f8794a283a6%40googlegroups.com > > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/92e81e55-42b4-4127-ad57-2f8794a283a6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/2a6b0b26-0c46-415a-9996-58d42312c23b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
