#git-annex

Storing Massive Binary Information in Git Repositories

This is a small replace (1 12 months later) of an excellent article byIlmari Kontulainen, first posted on blog.deveo.com. I’ll postthe unique article in blockquote and my notes in inexperienced. Storing massive binary recordsdata in Git repositories appears to be a bottleneck for quite a bit of Git customers. Due to the decentralized nature of Git, which suggests each developer has the total…

That's a neat trick I've seen one or two other programs do, and probably the nicest thing to come out of what was otherwise a pretty yak shaving change that involved babysitting builds all day.

a pretty yak shaving change

Ragassi, siam mica qui a tosare gli yak!

After some struggling with getting git-annex on Gentoo i succeeded. You can get build script from: