repo.macintoshgarden.org-fileset VS dotmesh

Sure, how would you like to get in touch? You have a discord, right? I actually was looking at your project and was thinking of opening a simple PR and Issue. (same username)

I have some more examples git-annex repos:

This is an annex repo I made of this popular abandonware website:

https://github.com/unqueued/repo.macintoshgarden.org-fileset

https://github.com/unqueued/ratholeradio-archive

What's cool is that people can use standard pull requests to add files to the repo. And the repo itself is small, but it can represent huge filesets. Datalad has some really fascinating medical imaging data repos that are massive (https://www.datalad.org/datasets.html).

If you wanna see a really good example of a repo with versioned binary files, check this out the git annex repo of previous git-annex binary releases:

https://downloads.kitenet.net/.git/

You can just use standard git workflows to see previous revisions of a file (well, previous hashes) but it is really easy to hook into.

I actually have thought about making a special remote specifically to diff images. But yeah, git-annex does a really amazing job at bridging the bag between binary and git.

This is great, well done. While at (now defunct) Dotscience we did a lot of work on Dotmesh which you might find interesting: https://github.com/dotmesh-io/dotmesh

I would also look at data science/ML as a potential use for the tool as there are real issues with using Git for training data.

Last point which is more of a tip: Show don’t tell. If you did some side by side workflow walkthroughs showing the difficulties with other tools it will make it easier for people to see that this problem is real (which it definitely is)