Hello everyone,
The answer is "yes". I have come across investment banks that store boost releases in subversion. Sometimes it's a full boost release and that can be quite large. They take a long time to checkout but at the time it seemed better than the alternatives available at the time, e.g. placing the artifacts on an SFTP site or Windows share (ugh).
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_opentechstrategies.com>
Sent: 24 April 2020 17:40
To: Subversion Users <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Subject: EXTERNAL: Who else is using SVN for large-binary-asset storage?
Are there other companies out there using SVN for large-binary-blob storage?
I'm wondering if it might be possible to put together a mini-consortium of companies to fund the completion of Issue #525:
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fissues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fbrowse%2FSVN-525&data=02%7C01%7CAndrew.Marlow%40fisglobal.com%7C6729a1c6e8434e58ae4b08d7e86e7f0d%7Ce3ff91d834c84b15a0b418910a6ac575%7C0%7C0%7C637233433584704974&sdata=WDAoL3RF5rOb0nx7Ig1wFIZkrisKSw%2BgKC1nGZ2GaPM%3D&reserved=0
"allow working copies without text-base/"
Our company keeps medium-large (say, ~5GB) binary blobs under version control in a dedicated Subversion repository, and it works quite well. Subversion can handle files of that size just fine, and it enables us to do path-based authorization (yay) and partial-tree checkouts. [1]
But the presence of text-base files in .svn/pristine/ is a real downer :-). The text-base files are mostly pointless in this case, and they double the client-side disk space usage.
There is no useful diff between two revisions of these binary blobs: there's no human-readable diff *and* there's rarely any machine-useable diff either (e.g., for reducing network time when receiving an update or committing a new revision). So the only benefit from the text-base files is to make 'svn revert' faster. We'd be happy to have 'svn revert' re-fetch the file from the repository if it meant we could reduce our storage cost on the client side by half.
(Plus you'd only lose local-revert capability on files where you know you don't need it, since presumably the no-text-base behavior would be optional per file and controlled via an 'svn:no-pristine' property or something like that.)
Is anyone else in a similar situation? If we join forces, we could probably fund one or more Subversion developers to finally get Issue #525 done. I'd be happy to do the organizing (I'm still reasonably familiar with Subversion development and who does what, though I haven't been an active developer in the project in many years).
Please CC me on any replies, as I'm not subscribed to users@.
Best regards,
-Karl
[1] We investigated using Git too, but, though Git good for many things, it is not well-suited for this particular job. The Git Large-File Storage extension (https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit-lfs.github.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7CAndrew.Marlow%40fisglobal.com%7C6729a1c6e8434e58ae4b08d7e86e7f0d%7Ce3ff91d834c84b15a0b418910a6ac575%7C0%7C0%7C637233433584714968&sdata=XLfHamWk4don%2F1w77lC8zcC85ORUS%2FCnkuB8ft53XGs%3D&reserved=0) doesn't address most of our needs either; it's solving a different problem, I guess.
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