Hi Robert, Interesting initiative. What is the "two copies of everything in a checkout" problem you are talking about?
Justin On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 at 01:54, Robert Hickman < robert.e.hick...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi people, > > I've been working on a 'subversion replacement' for the last 5 ish > years called 'simple http file sync' (shttpfs), a centralized version > control system for binary files. > > SHTTPFS was created to manage changes to a lot of binary image and > video files across multiple computers. The nature of my own data is it > is primarily added to and very rarely changed. i.e. video is edited > 'non destructively', and a new video is rendered. I created shttpfs to > solve subversion's 'two copies of everything in a checkout' problem, > which was causing data bloat to an extent that made it completely > unusable. Nothing else worked reliably, or had the required features > (simple design, atomic commits, arbitrary partial checkouts, good > command line interface, stores version history on a central server). > > https://github.com/robehickman/simple-http-file-sync >
