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Deduplicating VCS for large binary files in Go

8 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2020-06-21 · latest 2022-10-03

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  1. …binary files so I finally broke down and wrote my own system based on the Restic chunker: https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver It's pretty basic, but it works for me and will hopefully inspire someone to make a "real" data VCS based on…
    comment by kumarsw · 2022-10-03 · in Data Version Control
  2. I wound up writing dupver https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver after getting frustrated with the lack of versioning tools for binary files. One neat thing about .docx files and their ilk is that they are "just" zip files so it isn't hard to…
    comment by kumarsw · 2022-03-02 · in Write plain text files
  3. I've been working on a project for deduplicating version control written in Go https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver I've been a bit frustrated with existing binary version control systems which I've found to be either too centralized, not…
    comment by kumarsw · 2022-02-02 · in Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
  4. DupVer https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a deduplicating version control system for large binary files. It's designed to keep state in a repository on the local machine separate from the working directory so it plays nice with cloud…
    comment by kumarsw · 2021-01-15 · in Ask HN: What are you working on?
  5. DupVer https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver is a deduplicating version control system for large binary files. It's designed to keep state in a repository on the local machine separate from the working directory so it plays nice with cloud…
    comment by kumarsw · 2021-01-09 · in Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
  6. …I've been playing around with a proof-of-concept in Go based on the Restic chunker library: https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver
    comment by kumarsw · 2020-12-25 · in What comes after Git?
  7. …deduplicating version control system for large binary file based around the Restic chunker library: https://github.com/akbarnes/dupver I like to think that this (well, deduplicating version conrol in general, not my crufty project) will be…
    comment by paleogizmo · 2020-06-21 · in Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?