Pixotope Asset Hub

The Asset Hub service is a shared data storage with support for

• synchronization - data can be synchronized across connected machines

Characteristics

• support for storing and transferring large files

• mechanism to mitigate data redundancy

• ability to restart (continue) failed data transfers

Setup

• The Asset Hub service runs on every machine

• The Asset Hub cache lives on the server machine. It holds

  • the cache of the files

    • File data is split into chunks of 8MB and stored in the Asset Hub cache on the server machine.

  • the changelog

Learn more about how to Sync files using Asset Hub

Ignored files/folders

By default, the following folders are ignored:

DerivedDataCache/
Intermediate/
Saved/

To create your own list of what files/folders to ignore

1. Create a .pxignore file in your projects or common folder
   for a project: Synced Storage/Projects/[Project folder]/.pxignore
   for Common: Synced Storage/Common/.pxignore

2. Add the files and folders to ignore based on the following pattern

.pxignore pattern

• One rule per line

• Empty lines are permitted and are ignored

• Lines starting with # are considered a comment and are ignored

• Behaves like Unix shell patterns, more-less same as .gitignore. Few examples:

  • Temp - Ignore file or directory <Workspace>/Temp

  • Temp/ - Ignore directory <Workspace>/Temp

  • **/Temp - Ignore file/directory Temp anywhere in workspace tree.

  • **/*.{obj,tmp} - Ignore file/directory with extension .obj or .tmp anywhere in workspace tree.

For more information about supported patterns, see the glob library → https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob

• To ignore a file/folder, it must be ignored before it was pushed for the first time

  • If a file/folder is already tracked, it is not affected by the rules

• Ignore files in subdirectories are not taken into consideration

• In case there are any non-ASCII characters, the file must be encoded in UTF-8

Differences between Pull, Force pull and Hard reset & pull