I was trying to figure out it's use-cases

Lore is a next-generation open source version control system maintained by Epic Games. Designed for unprecedented scalability—both in terms of data size and the size and distribution of teams and repositories—it is especially optimized for projects that combine code with large binary assets, such as those found in the games and entertainment industries.

Oh yeah this is solving a huge problem. Games struggle with versioning because of the limits in place of git.

Why is the Lore codebase itself five git repositories, not five Lore repositories?

The project description reminded me of a project I saw years ago. I looked it up, and I'm pretty sure it was oxen, which is surprisingly still going, although their hub looks half-dead.

This won't gain traction no matter how good it is because it isn't git.

Very cool project. I imagine people will like being able to commit all assets without everyone everywhere having to download every pixel change.

It is not next-generation, this is a versionning solution for a different kind of software than git. Git works extremely well for traditional software development.

Lore seems to be tailored for video games and other software that have large amount of assets, partial checkouts, worktree where patched-based system is not very well adapted.

EpicGames, huh? I did not expect that!

Interesting, I'd like to see a benchmark comparison of it with Git, both in scenarios with multiple binary assets and in typical scenarios of mostly source code files

I'm no longer friends with Epic, but I recognize the usefullness, as this is Open Source, solves a problem they need and on top of, it is written in Rust. One of the best things come out of Epic lately.

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