Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative

• git-lfs

  159 12,471 9.0 Go

  Git extension for versioning large files

  

Congrats on the HN launch. How does this improve or expand or blow git-lfs[1] out of the water because if I needed large blob file support it's what I would use instead. It offers pointers to the big files to the hosted git instead of pushing around the binaries itself -- though I am speculating since I've not used it myself just read about it online.

[1] https://git-lfs.com/

• desktop

  214 19,141 9.9 TypeScript

  Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.

  

Congrats on the launch! It's always exciting to see more competition in the version control space.

One question I have is whether you guys are better than:

https://desktop.github.com/

This seems to do the exact same thing, be free forever, and have a more mature GUI that is also easier to use than regular terminal git. In my firm, even with people who don't know how to code, they can use github desktop (since it babies you through the process of committing code.)

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• github-docs

  44 15,528 10.0 JavaScript

  The open-source repo for docs.github.com

  

git clone https://github.com/github/docs.git 123.57s user 37.02s system 74% cpu 3:35.73 total

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/docs.git 3.37s user 1.83s system 35% cpu 14.521 total

Not a scientific test at all, but the second one was literally 35x faster, wall clock time.

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

Considering many languages' very own tooling (e.g. gofmt, syn) often have glaring gaps[1][2] in the understanding/roundtripping of the language's AST constructs, I would never be able to trust something like this to store my code.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20744

• syn

  19 2,667 9.6 Rust

  Parser for Rust source code

[2] https://github.com/dtolnay/syn/issues/782

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