S3git: Git for Cloud Storage, Written in Go

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13 points·koolhead17··7 comments

> Q Do you support encryption? A Simply encrypt it before streaming into s3git add, eg pipe it through openssl enc or similar. Q Do you support zipping? A Simply zip it before streaming into s3git add, eg pipe it through zip -r - . or similar.

A "no" would have sufficed.

This is relevant to my interests, so I was going to try to read the source to see how it works: it seems that the internals are in https://github.com/s3git/s3git-go which is a dead url?

The library is not yet open sourced but will be soon. Some internals about how s3git uses the BLAKE2 hashing algorithm are described in https://github.com/s3git/s3git/blob/master/BLAKE2.md which may be of interest.

Just FYI, JGit [0][1] also supports S3 outside of being a fully-featured Git client.

[0]: https://eclipse.org/jgit/

[1]: https://github.com/eclipse/jgit

Thanks for the links. However s3git more applies the git philosophy/way of working to Cloud Storage rather than being compatible at a binary level.

I agree. Just wanted to add some perspective.

FYI, this isn't actually git, this is something entirely different that also has `git` in the name.

That is correct (see also earlier reply), it is aimed at really large repos with primarily non-text blobs backed up cloud storage like S3, but doing so in the spirit of git and hence the name.

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