mal10c

This project reminded me of something I've been looking for for a while - although it's not exactly what I'm looking for...

I use SolidWorks PDM at work to control drawings, BOMs, test procedures, etc. In all honesty, PDM does an alright job when it works, but when I have problems with our local server, all hell breaks loose and worst case, the engineers can't move forward.

In that light, I'd love to switch to another option. Preferably something decentralized just to ensure we have more backups. Git almost gets us there but doesn't include things like "where used."

All that being said, am I overlooking some features of Elfshaker that would fit well into my hopes of finding an alternative to PDM?

I also see there's another HN thread that asks the question I'm asking - just not through the lens of Elfshaker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20644770

kvnhn
Maybe not precisely what you want, but I built a CLI tool[1] that's like a simplified and decoupled Git-LFS. It tracks large files in a content-addressed directory, and then you track the references to that store in source control. Data compression isn't a top priority for my tool; it uses immutable symlinks, not archives.

[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud