Re: Alternative for binary files

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 14 December 2001, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> My company is currently using CVS to manage some third-party vendor
> really big, big tree with really many, many very big, big files.
> 
> The result, obviously, is totally unacceptable.  Even one of this
> files may take something like half an hour to check out, and that's
> for "just" around 20 MB.
> 
> I've been investigating the Web for a (free software) alternative, but
> up to now found none.
> 
> So the question is... is there in development for CVS any solution for
> this problem?  Or do anyone here faced a similar problem *and* has
> found a reasonable solution?  BTW, I only need versioning, not
> merging.

SubVersion looks promising, although it's not release quality yet.
It aims to be a better and complete CVS replacement.

http://subversion.tigris.org/

Next milestone (0.8) is due today...

PS. I'm in no way involved with the project, so please don't think it's
an advertisement of some kind.
 
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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)we.are.one.pl>