On Jun 29, 2011 8:38 AM, "Jens-Heiner Rechtien" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/29/2011 12:17 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > > [... snip ...] > > >> Um. I see kind of a pot shot at svn here. I'll give you the benefit of >> the doubt, rather than get cranky. The local pristines (beyond just >> diff) mean that commits can send deltas, rather than the whole file. >> And when you're working with 4G files (oh, wait! Hg can't deal with >> files that size!) then sending a delta is very important. > > > Of course, anyone who actually commits 4G files to a *source* code repository should be tarred and feathered.
Next time you play Quake, send a "thanks" to Subversion. id Software has been using svn for years to store image and video assets. Subversion was *designed* for more uses than just us code monkeys. I could name others, but it would be tiresome. Fact is that svn can store huge amounts of data. And people use that feature. Daily. -g
