On Tuesday, March 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out a way to have binary files in the repository
> which do NOT story any revision history. One might ask what the point is
> to this, as it's esentially the same as just copying the file directly.
> My reason for needing this feature is that I have recently convinced my
> company to try switching over to CVS (from Visual Sourcesafe) for a while,
> and they are used to being able to store all files (including huge binary
> audio files) within the repository by just turning off revision history on
> large binaries. In particular, there are some 200MB files which actually
> crash the server if you try to commit them, since it actually overruns the
> real memory + swap.
Why not setup an rsync "repo" for those files. Benefits much like the CVS
side of things without the "versioning" overhead. Rsync will try to minimize
the amount of data transmitted, etc... Yeah, it ain't "integrated", but it
should do the job handily...
--Toby.
