Re: Git-LFS or Git Annex?

[Christine Lemmer-Webber]

git-annex, 10000% :)

It's not as popular, but it's much more powerful, and is some of my
favorite software!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I’m looking for ways to incorporate videos into the repositories of our
> web sites so they’re content-addressed and properly tracked, and to make
> it easier to create backups (right now those videos are stored on our
> two main servers and rsynced between them⁰; I’m talking about the videos
> at guix.gnu.org, 10years.guix.gnu.org, and hpc.guix.info).
>
> The question boils down to: Git-LFS or Git Annex?
>
> From a quick look (I haven’t used them), Git-LFS seems to assume a
> rather centralized model where there’s an LFS server sitting next to the
> Git server¹.  Git Annex looks more decentralized, allowing you to have
> several “remotes”, to check the status of each one, to sync them, etc.²
> Because of this, Git Annex seems to be a better fit.
>
> Data point: guix.gnu.org source is hosted on Savannah, which doesn’t
> support Git-LFS; the two other web sites above are hosted on GitLab
> instances, which I think do support Git-LFS.
>
> What’s your experience?  What would you suggest?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
> ⁰ 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/berlin.scm#n193
> ¹ https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Tutorial
> ² https://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/