Hi Pete, Sounds very interesting, I've had a look at GitHub and I've a few questions, if you don't mind answering (purely as I don't know anyone else with experience of it) Is there any support for media files, such as Sounds/Images with version control or is it just text/code based? Also can you do offline editing or is it all online via their own editors?
Excuse my noob questions, I did have a look there but haven't had chance to have a proper play. Alex On 21 Mar 2010, at 06:47, Pete Morgan wrote: > I've been using GitHub and its API recently on a couple of projects. > > That got me thinking about using github for aircraft, with each aircraft > as a repository, as an experiment. > > I've already created a little python application to create the local and > remote git repositories and to push changes. > > Problem is that github has a quota, however I fired off an email and > below is the exchange. > > I don't know if this will be of an help to FG, but its an idea. > > pete > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Can github support a large opensource repository. > > FlightGear is an open source flightsimulator (flightgear.org) with a > huge data set, currently stored in CVS. > > One of the data elements to move and am researching, is the Aircraft > data http://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/data/Aircraft/. > > The idea would be to take all 250+ aircraft, each with its own directory > and move them to github, each with their own repository. > > The data is currently 2.4g+, but user quota is 300mb. > > This could be achieved by multiple users, however it would be easier to > have one account eg flightgear-aircraft/*. > > Can you accomodate this ? > > ----------------------------------------- > > Support Staff 2 > <http://support.github.com/discussions/email/6116-contact-flightgear?anon_token=eb80b5e74c2fd909033afb3966002ba42800ff13#comment_1274617> > > Posted by *Tekkub <http://support.github.com/users/11603>* on March 21, > 2010 @ 04:38 AM > > 1. > > You're more than welcome here. What you plan, splitting up into > many repos, is exactly what we suggest. No one likes cloning a > single 2.4GiB repo. Let us know if you need any help. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Splitting up is what we want to do, however the max quota for a single > user is around 300mb. We'd want ideally to have all the aircraft under a > "single user" initially eg flightgear-aircraft/** The question is can > github extend the quota for this user to more around 3g > > ------------------------------------------ > > 1. > > Support Staff 4 > > <http://support.github.com/discussions/email/6116-contact-flightgear?anon_token=eb80b5e74c2fd909033afb3966002ba42800ff13#comment_1274842> > Posted by *Tekkub <http://support.github.com/users/11603>* on > March 21, 2010 @ 06:12 AM > > You can ignore the quota. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. > > > Is it an unknown secret the Quota ? > > The user I have created is "flightgear-aircraft" and am creating a > little python application and github api (very nice) to create and > sync > repositories. > > If it doesn't work, for a variety of reasons, then I'll delete the > user > to save precious space. > > is that ok ? > > regards > pete > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. > > Support Staff 6 > > <http://support.github.com/discussions/email/6116-contact-flightgear?anon_token=eb80b5e74c2fd909033afb3966002ba42800ff13#comment_1274878> > Posted by *Tekkub <http://support.github.com/users/11603>* on > March 21, 2010 @ 06:28 AM > > It's a soft quota, we only enforce it in cases of abuse. > > So don't go abusing it! > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. > > we wont.. > thanks ;-))) > > pete > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
