Support large repositories!

Posted Apr 5, 2010 11:31 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Support large repositories! by RCL
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

> In gamedev data is a first-class citizen, and data commits (from 60+ artists) are usually much more frequent than code commits (from 10+ coders)

Now I feel glad not to be a second-class citizen in game development. I would hate to have to deal with tens of gigabytes every time I want to test a one line fix in isolation (just because no cares to modularize these tens of gigabytes...)

> Git seems to be ideologically incompatible with the very idea of workflow, where code is a tiny fragment of overall versioned data.

Yes, because it is designed and optimized for the opposite use case.

> DVCSes get all the things wrong here: local history (which would require several TBs) is not needed here, ability to lock the file is missing, ability to detect changes by scanning the files is detrimental.

These are all desired features for a distributed, "text-optimized" VC.

Thanks for sharing your experience with versioning binaries. It allows you to highlight better than anyone else how optimizing for binaries is different and incompatible from optimizing for text.