Tech Talk

2013-07-26

Large Files in Git suck

Git is text

(even though a few images are fine)

Database dumps suck

(but sometimes they are necessary)

Worse than database dumps:

Having to download them manually.

The Solution

Git-annex

manage files in git
don't check the contents into git

Getting started

 git init git annex init "my laptop"

Remotes

 git remote add laptop ~/annex git remote add usbdrive /media/pascal/thumbdrive

Adding Files

 git annex add big-large.iso git commit -a -m "Added big large ISO"

Getting files

 git pull laptop git annex get big-large.iso

Easier: Sync

 git annex sync

Updates all changes made to its remotes, pushes them and fetches changes.

The awesomesauce

Automatic locking
(no accidental modifications)
Support for rsync, ssh, local files,
ftp, [name-your-protocol]
Web interface (git-annex assistant)
^ like Dropbox, but w/o PRISM
Written in Haskell
Can keep track of minimum number
of copies (backup solution!)
Encryption

Let's do it

No reason not to use it.
Let's add database dumps
to the repo.
You can still get it the
old-fashioned way.

Random Candies

Bower 1.0.0

offline support, muuuch faster, nicer output, support for git SHA references, persistent conflict resolution, JSON output, register validation, components pruning, can download ubuntu

ngstorage

LocalStorage
AngularJS
'nuff said.

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