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
