[Live-demo] please avoid storing huge files in SVN

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 03:10:31 PDT 2010


trunk/sleeve/ contains some hundreds of megabytes of binary files.
Subversion is intended to be a version management system, not a data
warehouse. Huge binary files (say >5mb) should be housed outside svn,
e.g. at  http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/

Also, large files are a one way door in growing the backend database on
the svn server. (ungood, but less-worse than the effect was with CVS)


thanks,
Hamish

ps- double check that svn:mime-types are set correctly.



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