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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.


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)


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Interesting! So you basically implemented something similar to git LFS, correct?

Can I ask what's your usecase and why not use LFS instead?


I just looked at git-lfs and yeah the approach is pretty similar. There may be a good reason either way, as far as I know it hasn't been explored.


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!


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.


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).


Exactly.

The number of companies that implemented their own merge queue is too damn high.


Sorry, currently we're only offering Diversion as SaaS. I understand that some may prefer to self-host, this might be an option in the future.


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