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Re: Large Binary File Storage

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-05-07 22:32:51 CEST

Anthony Glover <gloverae@elmco.com> writes:
> Can anyone relay their experience with storing large binary files in
> subversion? We have a project that accumulated about 100 GB of data
> last year and we are considering subversion as the new version control
> system (the old method was just to accumulate dated copies). Some of
> the files are about 15 MB in size. Are there any known limitation with
> files this size or larger? Also, it is my understanding that
> Subversion will not try to merge binary files - is this correct?

That last part is correct.

I believe Gustavo Niemeyer at Conectiva has data sets similar to yours
in Subversion, and didn't have any problems, but you'd have to hear it
from him to be sure.

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