RE: [Question] Alternative to git-lfs under go

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On September 17, 2018 6:01 PM, Taylor Blau wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:55:55PM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> > On September 17, 2018 3:28 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > Randall S. Becker wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know whether it is practical to rework git-lfs under a
> > > > language other than "go"? GCC is not even close to being possible
> > > > to port to my NonStop platform (may have tried, some have died -
> > > > joke - trying). I would like to convert this directly to C or
> > > > something more widely portable. Is there a protocol doc out there I
can
> reference?
> > >
> > > Can you say more about the context?  You might like
> > >
> > >  git clone --filter=blob:limit=512m <repo>
> > >
> > > which tells Git to avoid downloading any blobs larger than 512
> > > megabytes until you know they need them.  See
> > > Documentation/technical/partial- clone.txt for more details.
> >
> > Sorry, I was not clear. I am not having issues with large files or
> > blob limits.  Members of my community wish to use Git LFS support on
> > their enterprise git servers, so as platform maintainer for git on
> > NonStop, I am trying to accommodate them. The stumbling block is that
> > "Go" language will not port to the platform.
> 
> We have an open-source specification here [1], and the rest of our API
> documentation is in here [2].
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/spec.md
> [2]: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/tree/master/docs/api

Very much, thank you!