On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:47 PM, James Dumay <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be amazing if we could back the entire application onto something > like git or mercurial (including artifacts and metadata) so that we could > have VCS-like auditing abilities. No Maven repository I am aware of can deal > with versioning yet.
I believe the Nexus guys tried it (with svn) and said it was just too slow. Subversion, at least, isn't optimized for dealing with large binary files. Since artifacts don't change after they are deployed, I don't see much benefit of putting them under version control. (And often a Maven conversion involves getting jars *out* of the version control system. :) ) Archiva has audit logs... perhaps improving those and providing whatever search/reporting is missing would be a better way to go? -- Wendy
