Large Binary Files

[jbowtie at amathaine.com]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Chris Hecker <checker at d6.com> wrote:
>
> 2.  There is no way to store a subset of the history locally, so you will
> have every version of each large binary file.  With p4, this obviously
> happens on the server, but hey, it's a server with 10TB of RAID storage or
> whatever.  With svn, you get 2x due to the working copy format, which sucks,
> but it's bounded.  With dvcs, you get all the revisions, basically full size
> for each one.  HG copies the file in the repo on renames as well, currently.
>

Bazaar has the concept of a "light checkout" which leaves both the
repository and the branch on the server. This of course means you
can't do anything if you lose the connection to the server, but it
also means you don't even pay the 2x penalty svn forces on you.