Version Control

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at 2008.43-1.org
Mon Nov 3 10:58:16 UTC 2008


Hi,

"(``-_-ยดยด) -- Fernando" <ubuntu at bugabundo.net> writes:
> The reason I'm emailing you guys and galls, is to ask if someone
> recommends any other Version Control System, that can suit my needs of
> safe guarding my confs as versioning, plus binary files.
> AFAIK git aint that good, because each commit will store ALL files,
> and not just the updates.

This is wrong.  Git will store each file only one time.  If a file does
not change between commits, only a "pointer" to the only version is
stored.

I use Git to sync my work on several computers and have some
repositories that also contain binary files and they don't grow very
fast.

Regards,
Ansgar

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