Re: [pgsql-www] Where to put shared designs/images

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> * Michael Paquier (michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> > > So I'm happy with github as a choice. However, I don't know that
> > > there's any way to do "link to the latest version of raw file X", so
> > > we'd still want to publish stuff to FTP.postgresql.org, no?
> > >
> > > Probably not everything, though -- if we were selective, we'd avoid the
> > > space issue.
> > AFAIK, github supports such URLs, aka linking to the latest version of
> > a file on a branch:
>
> I thought they *used* to, but dropped it due to issues..?
>

They disabled "uploads", separate from the repositories, was my
understanding: https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads

Not sure about predictable URLs, but using git itself for very large repos
is maybe not the best idea in general. Everybody will have to clone a 10+Gb
repository to contribute even something simple, I'm not sure that's very
contributor-friendly either...

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