Ai2011/9/20 Pavel Janík <[email protected]>: >> Have we ever considered using version control to...uh...manage file versions? >> >> Just an idea. > > > Maybe Heiner will say more, but in the past, we have had the external > tarballs in the VCS, but then we moved them out and it worked very well. > There never was a reason to track external.tar.gz files in VCS, because we do > not change them. > --
That's fine. If they don't change, then doing a "svn update" will not bring them down each time. Aside from being useful for version control, SVN is useful also very useful as an audit trail. So in the rare occasions when one of these files does change, we know who changed it and why. This is important for ensuring the IP cleanliness of the project. Is your main concern performance? Even as individual tarballs, ext-sources is 86 files, 250MB. ooo/extras is 243 files and 822 MB. And ooo/main is 76,295 files for over 900MB. So ext-sources is not a huge contributor to download time. > Pavel Janík > > > >
