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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by maccard »

e40 wrote: post #43
niek_pas wrote: post #22

Just today as I pushed some changes to Github, I was thinking how user-unfriendly Git's UI is: Enumerating objects: 5, done. Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. Delta compression using up to 10 threads Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 290 bytes | 290.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local obje…

I think we can all agree that information should be behind a -v CLA. It's probably just something no one has thought of doing. I've learned over the decades to just ignore it.

> It's probably just something no one has thought of doing

There are 1000 things that's true of about git. At a certain point that becomes a problem in and of itself.

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

O5vYtytb wrote: post #79
iceweaselfan44 wrote: post #67

>fully open source >look inside >Lore Desktop Client is available as binaries only, download the installer for your platform here:

https://epicgames.github.io/lore/roadmap/#desktop-client > Open-source the desktop client so the community can build on its full graphical experience, not just download it. An early desktop client already exists as a binary download, but it isn't open source yet — it depends on some proprietary components, including Epic's internal design system. We're working to make all of it available in the open so that the clien…

Thanks. I still think it's a bit weird to say "fully" open source while your flagship client is currently closed. I realize they're referring to the VCS itself, but—well, if they just dropped the "fully" for the time being, I wouldn't bat an eye.

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by kardianos »

I like everything I've read on this site so for, for it is also something I've been wanting.

If the roadmap's "Web client and code review tools" could replace gerrit for me, this would be a easy switch.

Moreover, it looks like they designed both the mutable store and immutable store to be able to easily store their state directly on an s3 like system.

There are a number of features that would greatly speed up CI/CD system operations I belive.

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by frollogaston »

wongarsu wrote: post #15
gbraad wrote: post #5

What makes lore better or worth considering... when svn and git never failed me...

Git does great with text files, but game development contains a lot of binary assets (textures, videos, 3d models) and correspondingly huge repos. git-lfs tries to patch around that, but that makes a complex tool that creatives struggle to understand even more complex. Perforce is a pretty popular solution, and was used by Epic in the past

Have to think they're doing this out of a real need, given they were already using Perforce and must've considered Git too. It's also not like 2010s when version control was a hyped thing.

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by eblanshey »

This looks very cool! I maintain a FreeCAD workbench for 3d model version control[0], and it currently uses git as the VCS, simply because that's what I was already using. Thinking long-term, I see it eventually morphing into a broader PDM (Product Data Management) system, perhaps even PLM (Product Lifecycle Management). Lore has a lot of the requirements already built-in, like centralized locking (better than SVN), and it's better suited for for binary files. I implemented the git backend as a protocol/port so it'd be pretty easy to swap it out. I'll be watching Lore closely.

[0] https://github.com/eblanshey/HistoryWorkbench

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by yomismoaqui »

niek_pas wrote: post #22

Just today as I pushed some changes to Github, I was thinking how user-unfriendly Git's UI is: Enumerating objects: 5, done. Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. Delta compression using up to 10 threads Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 290 bytes | 290.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local obje…

This is what happens when a kernel developer creates tools that need some kind of UX (I say this both as a shitty UX developer and Linus fan)

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by yoyohello13 »

maccard wrote: post #91
e40 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we can all agree that information should be behind a -v CLA. It's probably just something no one has thought of doing. I've learned over the decades to just ignore it.

> It's probably just something no one has thought of doing There are 1000 things that's true of about git. At a certain point that becomes a problem in and of itself.

Luckily it’s an open source project so you could go in and clean up the ux.

Re: Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Post by testdelacc1 »

analog8374 wrote: post #30
jacobgold wrote: post #21

I'd trust this project more if it was named Data.

All Data is Lore. I mean lore is a superset of data. I mean data is lore with a special attribute. I'm not just picking nits here. And this is not cynicism. so there you go.

The likely source for Lore - https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lore
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