# s3git/s3git

s3git: git for Cloud Storage. Distributed Version Control for Data. Create decentralized and versioned repos that scale infinitely to 100s of millions of files. Clone huge PB-scale repos on your local SSD to make changes, commit and push back. Oh yeah, it dedupes too and offers directory versioning.

Repository: https://github.com/s3git/s3git
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/s3git
Homepage: http://s3git.org
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: cloud-storage, git, version-control, decentralized, distributed
Last push: 2016-08-02T00:27:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3838, "days_push": 3684, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1461, forks 63 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:47.469012+00:00)

## What it is
s3git is a Go CLI tool that applies git-like distributed version control to data stored in S3-compatible cloud storage, supporting huge repos with deduplication and directory versioning. It requires no server-side components and offers Go, Python, and Ruby libraries.

## Use cases
- version control large datasets in cloud storage
- clone petabyte-scale repos locally to make changes
- deduplicate and version directories of files
- manage build and release artifacts like Kubernetes releases
- devops data pipelines with versioned storage
- store and version photo and video collections

## When to choose
- you want git-like workflows for large data in S3
- you need decentralized versioning without server components
- you need deduplication across millions of files

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software (last release 2016)
- you need git features like branching workflows for source code
- you use non-S3 storage backends

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: version-control, cli, file-system, compression, backup
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing, files, version-control
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: git-for-cloud-storage, s3, data-versioning, deduplication, decentralized, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- s3git/s3git (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.469012+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:35:22.119453+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/s3git/s3git (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.469012+00:00, sha 0bf7f1abc004)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.