Research viable alternatives to git-annex

denshoproject / ddr-cmdln

Command-line tools for automating the Densho Digital Repository's various processes.

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Research viable alternatives to git-annex #213

Open gjost opened 2 years ago

gjost commented 2 years ago

Git is rock-solid and is developed and supported by whole teams of people. Git-annex is awesome and has served us really really REALLY well, but it's the work of a single developer (the amazing Joey Hess) in Haskell, a rather obscure programming language, so it has a rather high bus factor. It might be a good idea to look at alternatives, just in case.

gjost commented 2 years ago

My favorite alternative so far is git-fat, a Python project: https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat It hasn't seen action in awhile, but it does have a number of forks, three of which have been more active.