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- When you work with large binary files that don't diff well (psd), it's a pain to have the entire repository history local. - Hard to explain to even fairly t
by koenbok 16y ago
- When you work with large binary files that don't diff well (psd), it's a pain to have the entire repository history local.
- Hard to explain to even fairly technical designers/copywriters.
- With all that easy branching, I sometimes just have a hard time getting a decent version of the codebase together from everyone.
- dustingetz 16y agoi used SVN to track large binaries and it was morbidly slow. maybe i was doing it wrong. i thought the solution was to keep binary assets under a separate version control better suited for files that don't diff; a nightly snapshotted filesystem seems just fine.
- ableal 16y agoSeems that's why Perforce is in business (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1242374 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1242374 )