Re: How to avoid cluttering the svn repository with several versions of compiled files

Hello!

Les Mikesell schrieb:
> So what's your plan for removing obsolete space-wasting binaries after
> the repository grows to a size that is inconvenient to maintain and back
> up?

There is not plan to remove such official software releases from the
repository. In this specific project the source part of the repository
is about 4GB. Every official release generated about 20MB of binary
files. There are about 10 official releases per year. So where is the
problem?

Storing such binary files on a file server also uses some space, about
the same amount as in a SVN repository. I have to admit that onn the
customer's site the siles are also stored on a file server for people
who don't have SVN accounts.

I know that there are many projects where the generated binaries are
much bigger than the source files, so it could really be a problem
to stuff them into SVN.

> Then you could periodically extract the few currently-useful versions
> and delete and rebuild the repository without bothering the one holding
> the source where you probably want the full history.

In this project the generated files have to be kept forever in order to
fulfill requirements of the certification authorities. And also I think
that it would really, really bad practice to delete any file which was
an important part of released products, especially for product which
have a life cycle of >=10 years.

Regards
Andreas Schweigstill

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