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    Hi,<br>
    <br>
    About this Git as Journal backend project...<br>
    I have come to the conclusion that it's a terrible idea.<br>
    <br>
    Don't get me wrong, I'm the first to recognize git's contribution
    for the world.<br>
    In fact I even have a small <a
      href="http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/Git%20para%20Sugar">git front
      project</a>.<br>
    <br>
    However, as a general datastore, git is terribly innefficient
    especially when dealing with larger or binary files. You can read a
    detailed account of it's problems in the following article I found
    really interesting: <br>
    <a
href="http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity"><br>
      Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity</a><br>
    <br>
    It we do insist in adding some sort of version control, then I
    suggest we look into VCS extensions for large files, and some way
    that will allow the user to actually erase a file.<br>
    <br>
    In the Git world, git-annex does this but it's in my humble opinion
    <br>
    A better option for this would be <a
href="http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/">Mercurial's
      Largefiles extension.</a><br>
    Mercurial also has native compatibility with Git, so I tend to think
    it could be the best of both world.<br>
    <br>
    The tricky part here of course is the UI so I would love to see some
    mockups of what it's expected to look like.<br>
    <br>
    Regards<br>
    Sebastian<br>
    <a
href="http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/"></a><br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 20/03/15 a las 07:54, Gonzalo Odiard
      escibió:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJ+iPVSYmzQZ1C_rMgzSkqBENnrYYp-6QQaL7a3DCNY8-NaPjQ@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">You can find useful a experiment done by Martin
        Abente a time ago "FakeCloud: a silly and quick attempt to
        define a generic structure for web-service-basedJournal storage"
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          <div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">sugar branch: <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://github.com/tchx84/sugar/tree/fakecloud"
              target="_blank">https://github.com/tchx84/sugar/tree/fakecloud</a></div>
          <div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">sugar-fakecloud
            extension: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://github.com/tchx84/sugar-fakecloud"
              target="_blank">https://github.com/tchx84/sugar-fakecloud</a></div>
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        <div>He can provide more information. (cced)</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:33 PM,
          Shaifali Agrawal <span dir="ltr"><<a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:agrawalshaifali09@gmail.com" target="_blank">agrawalshaifali09@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:29
                PM, Shaifali Agrawal <span dir="ltr"><<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:agrawalshaifali09@gmail.com"
                    target="_blank">agrawalshaifali09@gmail.com</a>></span>
                wrote:<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">For the first part I did sturdy
                        research, I have wrote create, read, update,
                        delete functions in shell script to work as git
                        based backend. But for the project I will need
                        to code same in Python and Javascript, that can
                        be achieved via libraries like libgit2 js-git.
                        Under the hod git is a key-value store and for
                        generating key(sha or hash-objects) it generates
                        a checksum of the content of file plus a header.
                        So this can be achieved in Python and
                        Javascript.<br>
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                  <div>Links to above mentioned libraries : <a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="https://libgit2.github.com/" target="_blank">libgit2</a>,
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="https://github.com/creationix/js-git"
                      target="_blank">js-git</a><br>
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        -- <br>
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          <div dir="ltr">Gonzalo Odiard<br>
            <br>
            <div>SugarLabs - Software for children learning <br>
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