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Support large repositories!

Support large repositories!

Posted Apr 6, 2010 9:09 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Support large repositories! by bronson
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

> Besides, when it takes six hours for an optimized compile (this was the 90s), or when the dev tools cost $25,000/seat, then hell yes you check binaries into revision control. Right next to the source code.

As a matter of fact, I work daily with binaries that I cannot compile myself. Hell no they are not checked in right next to the source code, not to make revision control operations unnecessarily slow down to a crawl.


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