New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
Authored Comments
Great article. I hope many, many educators read it!
Time to get pedantic: there's version control and then there's version control. For the blobs I manage, having git be "aware" that something changed yesterday when everything else was at 33md6465b3 does me little good. I don't need the versions of my graphic or video to match up with yesterday's commit. I don't need the ability to step through my project and see the different stages of the visuals. I want backups in case I totally ruin a graphic, but aside from that I don't need versions. It's cool, however, that git-lfs does version large files, but it isn't something I need. In fact, I actually rolled my own BASH solution to simplify the process when git-media and git-annex are overkill.