I'm considering using SVN to replace a combo of CVS and manual methods
for managing web application development resources, and was wondering if
there was anyone on the list doing similar things that could give me
some real-world impressions.
I've done a bit of testing and it seems to do what we need (although the
import is slow when dealing with 100MB+ projects). Basically, I want to
be able to manage about 8GB of files, consisting of all the usual things
used in webapp development: HTML, PHP, Perl, Photoshop, GIF, JPEG, etc,
spread across about 70 projects and accessed by developers on Linux,
Windows and MacOS X platforms.
And yes, I realise it's alpha and I shouldn't trust my life to it etc,
but I don't see any major danger as long as I always keep a copy of each
project checked out onto a file server just in case, maybe with a cron
job that keeps it updated. Then if SVN blows up we can grab things from
the file server.
I see in the list of active repositories that some people are using it
for web sites and there's one repository at 5.7GB, so it seems my
requirements aren't particularly outrageous.
Opinions?
Jonathan Oxer
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Received on Tue Oct 15 04:51:02 2002