It gains features as fast as it needs them, doesn’t have to wait for spec nor for large corporations to approve employee time to do things. With git-annex I see someone who wrote software to solve his own need, shared it, found a funding model that does keep development moving and also doesn’t depend on silicon valley VC money (as both github and gitlab are beholden to). It is quite a bit older than git-lfs, which was just a spec with no implementation by the time I started to use git-annex. When I look at git-annex, I see software that doesn’t rush its features, has been maintained for a long time, with a good track record for code quality, community, and transparency. Is the person with the most followers/likes/comments on instagram the best photographer? Certainly not.Īlso keep in mind that the primary development repo for git annex is not on github, but github is the primary place for git-lfs. I think that “social” stats for code are good to tell if a project is absolutely dead in the water or not, but otherwise fails down the the lowest common denominator of group-think and cool-kid-mentality that all other social media falls victim too. So the stats I mentioned in the beginning are invalid but still… Now, this is my first time thinking about this so I might be very very wrong.Įdit: It seems I’ve been looking at someones mirror of git-annex at GitHub, they are actually self hosted. That said, it’s such a cool piece of software. It seems to be a crowdfunded thing with a few foundations supporting it on and off and and largely on the shoulders of a single one developer. ![]() This is of course if one was to develop a user friendly abstraction for managing photos via git-annex and possibly integrating it with the raw editor of choice.Īnd yeah, git-annex seems perfect for the job, but I don’t envision anyone willing to take on the maintenance of it in a few years just because it’s not supported by the big git companies like GitLab, GitHub or Atlassian. ![]() It seems to me that investing time in developing some “solution” around git-annex would be a temporary one because, although it’s very active now, git-annex will probably be dead in a few years. The thing that I’m worried about is git-annex has 37805 commits from 57 contributors, 3 watchers, 27 stars and 0 forks while git-lfs has 7729 commits from 161 contributors, 424 watchers, 8400 stars and 1600 forks.
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