Managing a photo library with bzr

Tue Jul 29 11:57:30 BST 2008

2008/7/29 David Ingamells <david.ingamells at mapscape.eu>:
> This sounds more like an application for a database (e.g. MySql) that a VCS.
> You could store in the database thumbnails, metadata (e.g. exif and
> checksums) and the location on disk of each big picture file.
> Most languages have good interfaces to MySql, so I'm sure Python has an
> excellent one.

Yes, many photo library managers already use this strategy. Tracker
[1] and Leaftag [2] also provide such database, but they all lack
revisions (of the file and the metadata).

[1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/
[2] http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Leaftag