I'm not expert enough on this.  Since Attila is the one who set up the
SVN server, I'll leave further discussion on this up to him.  Me, I
just want to do whatever is best.  :)

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
>> >> Also, we should not host them in the SVN repo, because the project
>> >> file would be a non-ascii blob.
>> >
>> > I disagree with this.
>>
>> I agree with your reasoning.  The problem is that the server the
>> repo is on doesn't belong to us.  Since binaries can't be diff'ed,
>> then every time you check in an update, it takes up as much space
>> as the whole binary.
>
> Subversion is smarter than that actually. :)
>
> --8<-- http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#binary-files
> Note that whether or not a file is binary does not affect the amount
> of repository space used to store changes to that file, nor does it
> affect the amount of traffic between client and server. For storage
> and transmission purposes, Subversion uses a diffing method that
> works equally well on binary and text files; this is completely
> unrelated to the diffing method used by the 'svn diff' command.
> -->8--
>
>
>> Moreover, a SVN repo, IMHO, is not an appropriate place to keep
>> releases.
>
> Ah! I agree about releases. But obscurely formatted binary files
> ("project files" above) that make up the "source" for hardware tools
> are good to have in the repo I think.
>
>
> //Peter
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