> On Feb 21, 2024, at 09:39, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <j...@videolan.org> wrote:
> 
> Yo,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024, at 15:31, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> I did hear (at fosdem?)
>> about the idea to switch from rsync to git for managing the fate samples
>> i thought the idea sounds interresting but isnt rsync more efficient ?
> 
> Yes, that's my idea.
> 
> The git part is not for others clients to sync, but just to manage the 
> samples.

I use git and git-lfs to manage/sync ffmpeg-fate-sample. It’s easy to setup a 
mirror
repo to avoid a lot of network issues at some countries.

> 
> It allows to have versioning of the samples, with the extra ability to have 
> branches and tags matching the ffmpeg branches.
> It avoids the weird dance "waiting for FATE admin to upload thing", because 
> their would be multiple approvers/committers to that repo.
> It simplifies the workflow on the admin side, since with a git hook, the 
> server does "git update" in the directory that will be rsync'd by the 
> mirrors. And it does not change their workflow, still using rsync.
> 
> just my 5c.
> 
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