Re: git with large files...

2012-07-29 Thread Drew Northup
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: >>> >>> Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the >>> Dare

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-23 Thread Kalle Launiala
2012/7/23 Sitaram Chamarty : > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: >>> >>> Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the >>> Darek> workflow to use git for dep

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-22 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > >>> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: >> >> Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the >> Darek> workflow to use git for deployment. >> >> Don't. > > Yeah, "don'

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: > > Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the > Darek> workflow to use git for deployment. > > Don't. Yeah, "don't think 'git checkout' is a way to 'deploy'". Using Git as a transp

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-22 Thread Kalle Launiala
While my example isn't about puppet, it's about another templating technology - that is by technical design hence also completely open source. We have a completely modulirized and completely distributed deployment scenario that is based on git. The fundamental core how git addresses the solution i

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Elia Pinto
I forgot to tell that using git for deploying puppet have also some disadvantages : you cant'use some puppet feature as external node classifiers or stored configurations. As always, there are tradeoff. For more http: //bitfieldconsulting.com/scaling-puppet-with-distributed-version-control (the mi

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Nick
On 21/07/12 15:42, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Elia Pinto wrote: >> Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the >> manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the >> configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for depl

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Elia Pinto
Sure . There is a complete paragraph " creating decentralized puppet architecture" in "puppet 2.7 cookbook". I am also sure to have read the same topic on web on the site bitfieldconsulting.com , not casually : the book's author have his blog there. Sorry i have not the complete url now - old smar

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Elia Pinto wrote: > Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the > manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the > configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for deployement. And, > for a configuration management

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Aguilar wrote: > I'm not sure if it was the "big files" part that Randal was responding > to. IIUC it was the "using git for deployment" part. > > Packaging tools (Makefiles, .rpm, .deb, etc) are a better suited for > deploying software. Fair enough. On th

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Elia Pinto
Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for deployement. And, for a configuration management system as puppet this could be a sensible thing to do - redu

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-20 Thread David Aguilar
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Randal L. Schwartz > wrote: >>> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: >> >> Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the >> Darek> workflow to use git for deployment. >> >> Don't. > > H

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: > > Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the > Darek> workflow to use git for deployment. > > Don't. Heh. Best to keep in mind that it just doesn't work very well. git-bigf

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Darek" == Darek Bridges writes: Darek> I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the Darek> workflow to use git for deployment. Don't. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix cons

git with large files...

2012-07-20 Thread Darek Bridges
I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the workflow to use git for deployment. I have a wordpress site that i need to track multiple branches of and it has many many resource files, images, video, etc... how can i streamline the performance. ive read about git-annex and also some