On 20/02/13 18:17, Ali Polatel wrote:
git-annex is a way to manage files with git without checking their
contents into git¹. There have been some chit-chat about using git-annex
for distfiles management on IRC but we never really discussed it
thoroughly.
git-annex may provide several advantages to our distfiles management.
One of the main advantages is integrity checking of files managed by
git-annex². The users can use several remotes which make it a practical
way to handle mirrors for them³.
The deployment may not look simple at first sight but I do not think
this is the case. git-annex is written in Haskell but it is fairly easy
to build it as a static linked binary which may be distributed in
::arbor and stages. I have been using this approach with our radio
station for a while now and haven't had any problems⁴. We can also use
git-annex' special "web" remote to distribute files through http protocol⁵.
The special remotes and especially the "hook" remote can even make it
possible to distribute files via p2p or other protocols⁶.
CC'ing infra monkeys for comments.
Please discuss!
¹: http://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex/
http://lwn.net/Articles/419241/
²: http://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/
³: http://git-annex.branchable.com/transferring_data/
⁴: http://dev.exherbo.org/~alip/scripts/cabal-annex
⁵: http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/
http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/web/
http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/using_the_web_as_a_special_remote/
⁶: http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/hook/
-alip
I suggested this last september, but unfortunately, the interest didn't seem to
be too large.
I still think that this can actually save us lot of trouble, so I'm all for it.
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