2.4. Version and sharing data with Quilt¶
Conducting modeling reproducibly and collaboratively requires versioning and sharing data. Although Git/GitHub is well suited to versioning and sharing code and models, Git/GitHub is not well-suited to data because Git is based on line-by-line differencing of text files, because Git is designed for small files under 100 MB, and because Git requires the entire package and its history to be cloned. Quilt is a new system for versioning and sharing data with similar functionality to Git/GitHub and Docker/DockerHub.
2.4.1. Overview¶
Quilt is based on versioning packages of data, which are hierarhical trees of directories and files.
Quilt provides the following features:
- Capability to version data packages
- Capability to share packages with collaborators and with the world
- Programmatic access to upload, download, and update packages
- Web pages with READMEs to view and browse packages, including their histories
2.4.2. Using Quilt¶
See the Quilt documentation.