Towards a production quality open source Git LFS server

sytse 10y ago ↗

I'll be here in the comments to answer any questions.

DavidPP 10y ago ↗

What storage backend(s) are you planning to support?

sytse 10y ago ↗

For now just files on disk (NFS block devices) I think. Of course an s3 compatible interface would be cool to have.

JoshTriplett 10y ago ↗

Or OpenStack Swift.

sytse 10y ago ↗

Doesn't Swift support the s3 protocol? https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift/APIFeatureComparison#A... (just like Ceph and others)

JoshTriplett 10y ago ↗

More or less; just requesting that if you add S3 support, you use a compatible subset of the API that Swift supports.

sytse 10y ago ↗

OK, thanks.

timclassic 10y ago ↗

Since Git LFS support in GitLab is targeted at both CE and EE, do you expect to open up the EE-only git-annex support to CE as well since the two features serve similar purposes?

Edit: "GitLab," not "GibLab," haha.

sytse 10y ago ↗

Thanks for asking. Right now the plan is to keep git-annex EE only. Git Annex can do some neat tricks (multiple storage interfaces, etc.) that Git LFS can't do. But I agree it is not a very congruent situation. We might reconsider when Git LFS is production ready.

sytse 10y ago ↗

Update from https://github.com/github/git-lfs/issues/584#issuecomment-13... GitHub has no plans to release production ready git-lfs server and suggests we start over, or fork it. GitLab will do the fork as already mentioned in the blog post.

b1naryth1ef 10y ago ↗

This just sounds like whining about having to write an implementation from scratch.

sytse 10y ago ↗

GitHub is free to keep their implementation to themselves. We wanted to prevent a duplication of effort and wanted some context about what to expect. Good thing is this was resolved in https://github.com/github/git-lfs/issues/584

Towards a production quality open source Git LFS server (about.gitlab.com)

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