On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 4:34 PM Robert Hickman <
robert.e.hick...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I used to use SVN to store and version binary image files, and the
> storage bloat of duplicating all of them in a checkout became unlivable.
> I asked about fixing this problem in SVN at the time, and it went
> nowhere. After trying numerous other tools and having nothing work
> reliably I ended up writing a solution to my own problem myself
> (https://github.com/robehickman/simple-http-file-sync).
>
> My tool is very rudimentary, but in creating this I realized that the
> problem of versioning binary files in an SVN-like way isn't very
> difficult. Usefully diffing binary files isn't generally possible, and
> at least for my own use even delta compressing them server side had no
> value, as my own data set is primarily added to and the files are rarely
> changed. Also hard drives are just so cheap now.
>
> This problem has been in SVN forever and nobody seems that interested in
> doing anything about it. Creating a new system is probably more productive.
>
> Personally I think a no-pristines feature provides additional benefits
beyond hosting large binaries, especially if, in addition to per-file, it
can be per-working-copy.
If your repository and working copy are on the same machine and local, then
I think you can see the benefit -- even more so if the wc is on a ramdisk.
Cheers,
Nathan
