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Subversion considered obsolete

Subversion considered obsolete

Posted Apr 7, 2010 22:56 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Subversion considered obsolete by dlang
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

> git currently requires that any file it manipulates get mmapped, this
> limits the file size to your memory size.

You can mmap(2) files that are bigger than your memory size.

Of course, if you're on 32-bit, there are some size limitations because of the limited size of virtual memory.


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