> If you don't have space for VCing your data you don't likely really have
> space for backing it up either, so do not accept this as an excuse to not
> vcs your data instead of backing it up.
I'd agree, but you may not have memory to VCS your data. Git, in particular, scales memory usage badly with large data files.
Posted Sep 1, 2009 18:16 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
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If you have disk space, you have memory: it's called swap. Use it appropriately. With ~$60 TB disks, there is no excuse for either not having enough memory or enough space to VC your data.