sasham
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Co-founder at diversion.dev - effortless version control. Previously co-founder at Adience, Leprechaun. Coder.
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Comment · 4 months ago
The issues they want to address are already solved in Diversion (https://diversion.dev). Granted it's not open source yet, but that isn't usually a priority for game/entertainment studios - having a complete platform is.
After tearing it apart for 2 hours - it seems like a solid beginning, but definitely not a fully-functioning product (especially on Mac, I hope it works better on Linux/Windows).
Disclaimer - I'm one of Diversion's founders.
Comment · 6 months ago
Thanks for the tip! Just did, everything seems to work. Maybe Webflow had a glitch?
Comment · 6 months ago
We're barely starting to see AI's impact on infra - probably <1% of what's coming. Repo hosting as it is today won't scale - it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, starting with basic architecture. And I don't think we should go back to self hosting and sharing patches over email...
(FWIW https://diversion.dev is at 100% uptime. Different scale, obviously, but also we're not Microsoft.)
Comment · 6 months ago
Perforce still exists and doing well, just because Git can't handle binary files and large repos. Which is a silly limitation these days.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm one of the founders of https://diversion.dev. It's a version control used mainly by game developers, but also by some audio and video artists. Its advantages over git for music production - 1) it works with large binary files out of the box, and 2) it's easy to use for non-technical people. This also solves the issue of backing up and sharing the project complete with large media files that the author mentions.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm sorry but your argument is defeated by the reality that there was a Hudna on October 7th, and Hamas broke it with a brutal attack killing and kidnapping hundreds of civilians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks)
Comment · 2 years ago
Fixed
Comment · 2 years ago
Ooops! We built a new site and now it's broken. Thanks for flagging! Fixing, it will be available here:
http://www.diversion.dev/blog/rss.xml
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting! So you basically implemented something similar to git LFS, correct?
Can I ask what's your usecase and why not use LFS instead?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you very much for the thoughtful comment! You're exactly right - Diversion's goal is to improve things such as what you mentioned. Moreover, we're aiming to build a flexible system that can be extended and improved further.
We'll definitely implement at least some of the things you mentioned!
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! Point taken.
The intro video is really just scratching the surface, you're right. We'll post more in-depth videos soon.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks!
I like GH Desktop as well, as a matter of fact our Web UI is a bit influenced by it :)
The difference is that GHD is a GUI for git. It's quite good in hiding some of the complexity, but if you get a git error (like a diverged branch) you still need to troubleshoot it.
Diversion is completely different. 1st of all it's far less complex, without local branches, staging area, etc. It also syncs your work in progress to the cloud in real time, alerts users about potential conflicts, handles large files without extra configuration, etc. Feel free to try it! (It's also free forever for small teams).
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly.
The number of companies that implemented their own merge queue is too damn high.