Den mån 15 nov. 2021 kl 15:41 skrev Justin MASSIOT | Zentek
<justin.mass...@zentek.fr>:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Interesting initiative.
> What is the "two copies of everything in a checkout" problem you are talking 
> about?

I would have presumed it is the "pristine" files. A solution was
proposed and implemented in this thread in dev@

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/202107.mbox/%3C874kcf6xin.fsf%40red-bean.com%3E

(I haven't looked at Robert's code and what he is trying to achieve).

Kind regards
Daniel

>
> 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

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