Hi Randall, On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:55:55PM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote: > On September 17, 2018 3:28 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Randall S. Becker wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know whether it is practical to rework git-lfs under a > > > language other than "go"? GCC is not even close to being possible to > > > port to my NonStop platform (may have tried, some have died - joke - > > > trying). I would like to convert this directly to C or something more > > > widely portable. Is there a protocol doc out there I can reference? > > > > Can you say more about the context? You might like > > > > git clone --filter=blob:limit=512m <repo> > > > > which tells Git to avoid downloading any blobs larger than 512 megabytes > > until you know they need them. See Documentation/technical/partial- > > clone.txt > > for more details. > > Sorry, I was not clear. I am not having issues with large files or blob > limits. Members of my community wish to use Git LFS support on their > enterprise git servers, so as platform maintainer for git on NonStop, I am > trying to accommodate them. The stumbling block is that "Go" language will > not port to the platform. We have an open-source specification here [1], and the rest of our API documentation is in here [2]. Does that help? Thanks, Taylor [1]: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/spec.md [2]: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/tree/master/docs/api
