Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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 objects.

I know all of these things communicate something to the die-hard Git user, but for most people (even most people using Git, I bet) this is just complete gobbledegook. What the hell is "delta compression"? Why do I care how many threads it's using? What is an 'object' and what does it mean when it's 'local'? What does 'pack-reused' mean?

From the documentation, it looks like Lore does a bit better in this regard:

    Pushing 1 fragment(s)
    Pushed 1 fragment(s), 124.00 bytes
    Pushing a3f8c2d1... to branch main
    Pushed revision 1 -> a3f8c2d1... to branch main

For context, since a lot of people on HN haven't worked on games - this is not intended to compete with Git for general software development. This is a competitor with Perforce for game development.

Git is fine for text based files like code, but it's really bad at stuff like textures, 3D models, audio files, and other non-text files that game developers need to collaborate on. For example, one artist might need to obtain an exclusive lock on some art assets while editing them, because there is no sane way to merge two artists' async edits.

The SOTA in this area is Perforce (https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core), a proprietary system. From what my gamedev friends tell me, when Perforce works it's great, but it hits enough snags that you need a tools engineer to manage it and occasionally fix issues manually. Git LFS is an alternative, but my gamedev friends all prefer Perforce especially when working on team projects beyond like 3-4 people.

This looks really good. I have been using git to store some PDF (tens of GBs) and git is really not well suited for this. No GFS is not a solution.

The incredible laggyness of that website does not inspire confidence. Much of the text selection is also broken, and chrome consumes nearly a full core trying to render.. something?

Its remarkable that anyone thought this website was fit for release, and it gives off strong slop vibes

I also have absolutely zero trust in a product like version control being provided by a for-profit company. It seems like a terrible idea to tie your software stack to Epic Games of all people, given their track record

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.