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For sure, and people are trying to do this on the basis of libgit2. But so far nobody has been able to make it work for all of the cases. Even GitHub is using f
by sytse 10y ago
For sure, and people are trying to do this on the basis of libgit2. But so far nobody has been able to make it work for all of the cases. Even GitHub is using filesystems as far as I know.
- markelliot 10y agoOne of the teams I work closely with used JGit's extensibility to run git on top of a KVS: https://medium.com/@palantir/stemma-distributed-git-server-70afbca0fc29 https://medium.com/@palantir/stemma-distributed-git-server-7... Notably this doesn't require a distributed filesystem.
- sytse 10y agoThat looks really interesting, thanks for posting. I added it to our issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/727#note_18253855 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/727#note...
- nixgeek 10y agoRelevant: http://githubengineering.com/introducing-dgit/ http://githubengineering.com/introducing-dgit/
- ethomson 10y agoFor Visual Studio Online and TFS, Microsoft is using libgit2 and some custom ASP.NET code for the upload-pack / receive-pack endpoints, stuffing the data into SQL Azure. No filesystem, no `git` executable.