HugeSCM is a cloud-native version control system designed for extremely large repositories. It is particularly suited to AI model development, game production, dataset management and monorepos containing large binary files.
The system separates frequently accessed metadata from file content, storing metadata in a distributed database and large blobs in object storage. Its Zeta client maintains a shallow local copy and retrieves data on demand, avoiding the storage and transfer overhead associated with cloning an entire Git repository.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Handles large repositories, binary assets, datasets and AI model files.
- Separates repository metadata from file content.
- Stores file data in object storage or a distributed file system.
- Offers familiar Git-like status, add, commit, push, pull, switch and stash commands.
- Supports sparse, single-file and one-by-one checkouts.
- Downloads missing objects automatically when they are required.
- Uses content-defined chunking for efficient large-file updates and deduplication.
- Supports parallel downloads, resumable transfers and external download accelerators.
- Provides merge, rebase and fast-forward-only pull strategies.
- Uses BLAKE3 hashes for repository objects.
- Includes tools for migrating repositories from Git.
- Offers JSON output from many commands for integration with other tools.
Website: github.com/antgroup/hugescm
Support:
Developer: Ant Group
License: Apache License 2.0
HugeSCM is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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