From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: Got for mainly binary files
To: Simon Harrison <info@simonh.uk>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 18:56:50 +0200

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 05:40:46PM +0100, Simon Harrison wrote:
> Hello all. Apologies if this is out of scope for this list but I'm
> wondering whether Got might be a good fit for Office type documents
> along with PDF's etc.
> 
> I'm weighing up options at the moment: Mercurial, Subversion and Got.
> Does anyone have any experience in this area? I'm more than happy with
> using Mercurial / Got for source code but for business assets, I've not 
> really been using anything other than rsync as a backup. I'm also not
> too worried about repository size as I've only got a couple of GB's I'm
> wanting to keep track of.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated and if this outside of the scope of the list,
> please let me know (as it might well be)!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Simon
> 
> 

I manage my own company's assets with Game of Trees, including
office documents (PDF, ODT, ...)  This use case works best in a
single-user setup because there is no support for merging such files.

Hg and SVN would work just as well, if not better since they offer
more configurabilty around diff and merge tooling.

If you are only looking for a backup solution rather than version control,
try Plakar: https://plakar.io