> how good/bad an idea is storing large amounts of medium-sized files > (think Yum/RPM repositories with full CentOS/EPEL releases) in > SVN for rollback and other purposes? > > I've got the feeling that the amount of disk space consumed for > deprecated versions alone should be preventive; making backups etc. > unnecessarily hard. > > Are there other reasons not to do this? How would you build an > argument > about this? Can you make this an FAQ answer? > > Cheers, > > Andreas
I think the only issue would be storage space. But, you would need a svn dev to tell you the particulars... I think there are cases where a simple delta can't always be used for a binary file so the whole content is stored in each revision. BOb
