Large Binary File Repository

Hi all, I am new to the list and fairly new to subversion also.

I need to analyse SVN as well as other SCM's. And one important task we need
is to have a special repository to handle *Libraries & Tools* that we use on
the current on-going projects. We have a structure in which a Disk (S) has
two folders \libraries and \tools, inside each of them we end up having
different versions of the same libraries, libraries we don't use anymore,
etc.

What we are trying to do is to have the SCM, in this case Subversion, manage
large these (some times large) binary files, so that we may checkout latest
versions of libraries automatically instead of having each developer copy
the libraries that it needs from a central storage server.

I was wondering If some of you could share tips, comments, and
recommendations to better accomplish this, or comments otherwise.

We are, for now (temporarily, and sadly) installing subversion on a Windows
XP Professional (Latest patches), just to run test, most likely latter to be
Kubuntu.

May be there are some configurations like transaction wise or logs that
speed up the process. Also I think it is better to run it with the *SVNSERVE
* server, right?

Well, thanks in advance,

f(t)
Received on Tue Oct 9 19:51:22 2007