[kwlug-disc] Subset of files in a second git repo

[Erik Schnetter]

Gratis file serving (for source tarballs) is also Github these days.
For binary artifacts Zenodo (backed by CERN) is a good idea. Zenodo
also mints DOIs, which is important for scientific reproducibility
(which might not be something relevant for you).

-erik

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:44 PM Adam Glauser <adamglauser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The log/versioning is not that important to me. The thing that is
> > important is that I will continue to update the files in main.git and
> > somehow reflect those changes in the public.git. If others want to
> > fork that and do something with it then they are welcome to, but my
> > interest is just to publish.
>
> Given that, the KISS approach would likely be a commit hook that kicks
> off an rsync task in the background, and serve your files on FTP or
> similar. OTOH, gratis Git hosting is probably easier to come by than
> gratis file serving.
>
> If your audience is primarily devs, then Git might be idiomatic
> enough, and the revision history useful enough, that's it's worth the
> extra effort to clone the relevant commits to a public.git repo.
>
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