From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: [JGIT] Problem using API to create a repository in Amazon S3 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 06:56:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1306833290555-6421952.post@n2.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: DCWoods X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 31 15:56:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRPQz-0007jC-0x for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 15:56:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754417Ab1EaN4b convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 09:56:31 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:57420 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282Ab1EaN4a convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 09:56:30 -0400 Received: by gwaa18 with SMTP id a18so1763780gwa.19 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 06:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.147.86.18 with SMTP id o18mr4974309yal.17.1306850190050; Tue, 31 May 2011 06:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.146.82.5 with HTTP; Tue, 31 May 2011 06:56:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1306833290555-6421952.post@n2.nabble.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:14, DCWoods wrote: > I am writing an application that I want to be able to control git usi= ng > Amazon S3 for the storage. =A0I want the application to be able to cr= eate a > new git repository in S3, commit files that are created dynamically b= y 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. --=20 Shawn.