On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 9:48 AM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
This implementation is in the 'pristines-on-demand' branch. More below... > > On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 at 01:54, Robert Hickman > > <robert.e.hick...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> 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 Thanks for sharing. I know you began this work long before the 'pristines-on-demand' branch existed and even before the mail list thread discussing it, but I'd very much like to know your thoughts on it. Cheers, Nathan
