On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Dominique Devienne <ddevie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote: >> On Apr 28, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Jan Matèrne (jhm) <apa...@materne.de> wrote: >>>> The web sites will remain in svn in any event because svnpubsub is the >>>> only supported mechanism to maintain web sites AFAIK. >>> [...] git/gitpubsub is working? >> >> Apache Infra does not support gitpubsub for [...] web site. > >> git is not the tool of choice to deal with large files such as the ones on dist.apache.org. >> That might be part of the reason why infra supports only svn for the web site. > > Just for info, what makes you say that? Why would git be worse than > SVN for large files? > > Is that because all clones must "copy" all versions (compressed deltas > I guess) of those large files? --DD
Various people indicate that git doesn't work well with large binary files: https://www.google.com/#q=git+large+binary+files -- Johan
