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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-01-26 12:43:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-01-26 12:43:21 -0400 |
| commit | b4179f5081414f3ac903a878538b976931442913 (patch) | |
| tree | 18659e8160b002ec5114c8c4e528be3931e83f05 | |
| parent | ff11803c8983173b00ca8a74e3d323679a9e128c (diff) | |
mention git-media
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diff --git a/doc/not.mdwn b/doc/not.mdwn index b138953f9..c9c5754d7 100644 --- a/doc/not.mdwn +++ b/doc/not.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,13 @@ down to a binary. And it has a fairly extensive test suite. (Don't be fooled by "make test" only showing a few dozen test cases; each test involves checking dozens to hundreds of assertions.) + +* git-annex is not [git-media](https://github.com/schacon/git-media), + although they both approach the same problem from a similar direction. + I only learned of git-media after writing git-annex, but I probably + would have still written git-annex instead of using it. Currently, + git-media has the advantage of using git smudge filters rather than + git-annex's pile of symlinks, and it may be a tighter fit for certian + situations. It lacks git-annex's support for widely distributed storage, + using only a single backend data store. It also does not support + partial checkouts of file contents, like git-annex does. |