CVS has similar issues.
Really, a version control repository needs special features to be able to handle large binary files
- notably the ability to store each version independently to reduce time spent calculating diffs.
I've not seen any open source systems that are geared to handling these kinds of files.
But if you have enough server CPU and IO and you're willing to wait, it can be done.
Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, qbxk wrote:
>
>
>>Has anybody ever tried working with large audio files and subversion -
>>does this work? really what i want to do is collaborate on editing
>>audio files (say WAVs..) and have all the common CVS
>>merge/check-in/out/rollback features that cvs can provide, anybody tried
>>anything like this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> How do you merge audio files? :-)
>
> svn can merge text files only.
>
> I've not tried it, but it might be a bit slow, since it will be trying to
> calculate binary deltas on those large files. And there will probably not
> be much similarity between two versions of an audio file, so I believe
> your repository will grow quite quickly. >
>
> I don't want to put you off before trying yourself, but svn was primarily
> meant for source code and documents. Surely, you'll have use for the
> history features.
>
> Regards,
> //Peter
>
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