Re: [Jack-Devel] New Website Help: Graphics etc

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:23:24AM +0200, Markus Seeber wrote:
> On 06/29/2014 10:02 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > Hey Markus what exactly is the issue with the downloads. What are you
> > wanting to achieve in the end.
> > 
> 
> Basically, I'd like to keep the deployment of the page, as easy as
> possible. (preferably a git clone and done)
> 
> Since they are linked in the page, the download files are basically tied
> to the repository. On the other hand, adding binary files of this size
> to a git repository is a bad idea.
> 
> Also, in the current state, adding downloadable files requires several
> actions for the one hosting the page:
> 1. Uploadng the File to the webserver
> 2. Modifying the Download page and rebuild the page with jekyll
> 3. Check the links on the page and back to step 2 if something went wrong.
> 4. Commit push the changed download page to the GitHub repository (for
> consistency )
> 
> Another problem here is, that the downloadable files are only set up by
> the one hosting the page, so they are outside of teh scope of
> configuration management, meaning you can't host the site, unless you
> have the downloadable files, or to make it short: they are not backed up.
> 
> Setting up another repo for just the binary files and including it as a
> submodule may be a solution. Then again you'd still need to run jekyll
> once, before you can deploy, so teh files get copied over into _site .
> 
> But I guess I'm already thinking in too difficult ways... ;-)
> 

At the cost of making things a bit more complex, you can transparently
manage big binary files in git with git-annex. A downside is that it
needs Haskell... I've used it for a while, and I think it might fit
your usecase well.

greetings,

lieven

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