On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Cory Riddell <c...@codeware.com> wrote: > On 9/23/2011 3:59 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Cory Riddell <c...@codeware.com> wrote: >>> I'm thinking about committing all the third party libraries that our >>> application depends on to make it easier to checkout a buildable set of >>> files from the past. >>> >>> Some of the libraries are around a gigabyte each. Right now our >>> repository has around a decade of history and is 5 GB. If we start >>> stuffing third party libraries into it, the repository could grow to 50 >>> GB in a few years. Is a 50 GB repository going to be significantly >>> slower than our current 5 GB one? >> I'd be more concerned about future maintenance issues than operational >> speed. A 50 GB repo is going to be substantially harder to deal with >> if you ever need to dump/filter/load to pull something out. Why not >> use separate repositories and reference the components with externals? >> > > Both you and Mark suggested I use externals. I've avoided using > externals because I've read more than one article advising against them. > I'm going to have to rethink this I guess. Can you use them without > abusing them?
For the needs you outlined, I do not think the feature could be much better. So I would definitely recommend it. There are other scenarios where the feature is still useful but starts to have some drawbacks. I think the benefits tend to outweigh those negatives. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
