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Yes, there are plenty of concepts from git that are useful (like tracking changes to content, rather than files.) I don't think using git itself directly would
by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Yes, there are plenty of concepts from git that are useful (like tracking changes to content, rather than files.)
I don't think using git itself directly would solve many of the hairy platform issues, because they are really outside the scope of what git itself tries to do.
There's also the complication that if you want a zero-knowledge approach to privacy (where server admins can't read your data OR your file/folder names) some new data structures need to be invented.
- eru 17y agoSee "Cryptree: A Folder Tree Structure for Cryptographic File Systems" by Grolimund et al. at http://www.dcg.ethz.ch/publications/srds06.pdf http://www.dcg.ethz.ch/publications/srds06.pdf
- rarrrrrr 17y agoInteresting. The design is somewhat similar to how SpiderOak works. They were both created at about the same time, it seems.