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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: DCWoods <dwoodsnz@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [JGIT] Problem using API to create a repository in Amazon S3
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 06:56:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinh7RFW8aSVndrKZp4nmPw+fPBzUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306833290555-6421952.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:14, DCWoods <dwoodsnz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am writing an application that I want to be able to control git using
> Amazon S3 for the storage.  I want the application to be able to create a
> new git repository in S3, commit files that are created dynamically by the
> application, and then later update and retrieve them.

You can't really use a repository on S3, you can only fetch from it or
push to it. So you would need to have a local repository that has a
copy of everything, work on the local repository, and at specific
"checkpoints" push the local repository to S3 for backups.

-- 
Shawn.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-31  9:14 [JGIT] Problem using API to create a repository in Amazon S3 DCWoods
2011-05-31 13:56 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]

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