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jorgeorpinel committed Nov 21, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -7,13 +7,9 @@ tracking of datasets and any other <abbr>data artifacts</abbr>.

With the aim to enable reusability of these versioned artifacts between
different projects (similar to package management systems, but for data), DVC
also includes the `dvc get`, `dvc import`, and `dvc update` commands. For
example, project A may use a data file to begin its data
[pipeline](/doc/command-reference/pipeline), but project B also requires this
same file. Instead of
[adding it](/doc/command-reference/add#example-single-file) it to both projects,
B can simply import it from A. Furthermore, the version of the data file
imported to B can be different than what's currently used in A.
also includes the `dvc get`, `dvc import`, and `dvc update` commands. This means
that a project can depend on data from an external <abbr>DVC project</abbr>, but
chaining several projects this way can easily become messy...

Keeping this in mind, we could build a <abbr>DVC project</abbr> dedicated to
tracking and versioning datasets (or any kind of large files). This way we would
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