large files and storage formats

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Forest Bond wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:37:28PM -0700, Chad Dombrova wrote:
>> why don't i just use git?  i abhor the way that it is designed. i need a vcs
>> that is user friendly, doubles as it's own api, is easily extended, and is
>> preferably written in python (with support for pure-python hooks).  so far
>> bazaar seems to fit these requirements quite well.
> 
> This may not be something you're interested in, but you can use bzr as a client
> to manipulate git repositories directly using bzr-git.  That would let you use
> git's object store (which you seem to like) with bzr's client code (which you
> also seem to like).
> 
> Thanks,
> Forest

I'll note, though, that the git 'loose blobs' are not simply file
content. IIRC they have a 'blob ####' header (# is the length, IIRC),
and then the whole content is DEFLATE compressed.

So even that doesn't fit his goal of having one copy of the text between
the repository and the working tree.

John
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