[Girder-users] Versioning files / folders

[Zach Mullen]

BTW, the plugin I linked only supports revisions of a file, not a folder
(doing that is less trivial, and depends on your specific requirements).



On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Zach Mullen <zach.mullen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> I actually wrote a prototype plugin[1] that does pretty much exactly what
> you described. Basically, when you upload the file, you just need to pass
> an extra parameter that identifies its canonical name/path, and then it
> auto-increments a version. The plugin contains a rudimentary view for
> listing the revisions of an asset in reverse-chronological order.
>
> [1] https://github.com/girder/data_revisions
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Zach
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andrés Fortier <andres at ekumenlabs.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> just to close the loop on the previous thread requirements, we would also
>> need to version the assets a user uploads. We don't need any fancy support
>> (i.e. semver or similar), just an increasing integer would do it. What we
>> would need is:
>>
>> - Updating an asset version each time it is re-uploaded (I assume the new
>> upload overwrites the existing data).
>> - Ability to get all the versions of a given asset.
>> - Ability to recover an asset by its version.
>> - (Ideally) ability to diff two versions of an asset (but there are tools
>> that already do this that we could integrate, so no big deal).
>>
>> Again, assets can be both files or folders (where the latter may be a
>> tricky one to handle). Is there support for such a use case in Girder?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Andy
>>
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