Large Binary Files

[Chris Hecker]

Yeah, but still no locking, which is a key feature and the reason you 
want centralized (and are willing to pay the usability price), and you 
can't have a partial light checkout as far as I know.  A partial light 
checkout (subdirectories) and locking would be a fine step towards the 
Right Thing.

Chris



On 2010/10/13 18:51, jbowtie at amathaine.com wrote:
> 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.
>