vcs for hefty video and graphics files

Michael Diamond dimo414 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 15:43:59 CST 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:

> In any case, do not even attempt to handle such projects with a DVCS.
>
> I don't know if I would go that far.  The major benefit of a DVCS is that
it stays on your computer, meaning there are fewer (or no) network
operations necessary, which would be very valuable on a many gigabyte
project.  The setup effort for Mercurial is also vastly simpler than SVN or
Perforce, so that's another perk for a small user.

The cost is of course your project will take up much more space on your
drive.  Hard to say how much exactly, but it will be a fair amount.  This is
no different than a centralized VCS, And only gets worse if you have several
versions of the repository floating around, which does not sound like it's
the case for this user.

I'm not saying Mercurial or another DVCS is the best option, but I don't
think it's fair to say it's absolutely not.  Along with the large
file extensions that are available, it's at least an option worth trying
out.

Michael
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