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Asked: 2026-06-12T14:02:56+00:00

Here is what I want to do: I have a USB hard drive where

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Here is what I want to do: I have a USB hard drive where I have data (pictures, audio files, etc). This takes a lot of space, and has many files, which are not text, but binary files.

Often I will reorganize this folder, add files into it, remove some, so the change can come from either comp-A or comp-B, just like I’d do on a personal repository, except that now it takes much more space.

I can’t afford using traditional version control across an internet connection, for 2 reasons:

  • Too much bandwidth

  • I don’t want to “delta” the files, because there are small enough (beween 100kB and 20MB) to be replaced instead of “diff’d”. A hash of the file is enough to guarantee the file has not changed and doesn’t require updating.

I want to do it from my computer to my USB hard drive (and maybe vice versa), so it’d be between two folders.

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  1. Editorial Team

    That looks more like an artifact repository than a version control system.
    The path of that referential can be one store on your usb key.

    An artifact repository like Nexus allows you to store your files, with for each one an associated SHA1 and MD5 checksum. See “What is a repository“.

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