On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 11:17:48AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 9:57 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I think chipping away the problems one by one is fine. But it would be > > nice to draw something like a "big picture" of where we eventually want > > to end up at and how all the parts connect with each other to form a > > viable native replacement for Git LFS. > > I have tried to discuss this at the Git Merge 2022 and 2024 and > perhaps even before that. But as you know it's difficult to make > people agree on big projects that are not backed by patches and that > might span over several years (especially when very few people > actually work on them and when they might have other things to work on > too). Certainly true, yeah. But we did have documents in the past that outlined long-term visions in our tree, and it may help the project as a whole to better understand the long-term vision we're headed into. And by encouraging discussion up front we may be able to spot any weaknesses and address them before it is too late. Patrick
