On Mar 11, 9:56 am, Thomas W <thomas.weh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I`m thinking about creating a very simple revision system for photos > in python, something like bazaar, mercurial or git, but for photos. > The problem is that handling large binary files compared to plain text > files are quite different. Has anybody done something like this or > have any thoughts about it, I`d be very grateful. If something like > mercurial or git could be used and/or extended/customized that would > be even better. > > We are talking about large numbers of photos and some of them are > large in size as well, but the functionality does not have to be a > full fledged revision system, just handle checking out, checking in, > handling conflicts, rollbacks etc, preferrably without storing > complete copies of the files in question for every operation. > > Thanks for any input. :-)
Most traditional revision systems excel at managing text, but suck at binary. I recall that Picassa has a revision system It occurs to me you could use Uuencoding to make binaries more amendable to handling by text-oriented revision systems -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
