Git has problems with lots of large, rapidly changing binaries. smaller binaries, or ones that are relativly static are no problem.
David Lang On Thu, 6 May 2010, Trey Harris wrote: > Yves, > > Why do you say to use old-fashioned tools for storing binaries? In my > experience, git does a fine job managing binaries. You can even set an > attribute to tell git what tool to use instead of diff to compare revisions > of binaries (if such a tool is available to dump the file into text form). > > Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote: > >> On 10-05-06 08:52 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: >>> With your firewall issues you will probably be better served with the >>> distributed VCS tools, like Mercurial, Git, etc... They give each >>> developer a full copy of the repository, so they won't need to be >>> accessing over the network all the time. However, they are more >>> complex. >> >> Distributed VCs (mercurial (hg), git etc...) have a lot of advantages, but >> you >> need to be careful with two things: >> >> -make sure you have one central repository that everybody pulls from, and >> make >> sure that everybody gets into the habit to pull from the main repo before >> they >> make any change. If they don't, you'll end up with a lot of branches that >> users new to VCs won't necessarily know how to deal with. No file should be >> used in prod unless it is in the central repo. >> >> -binaries: if you happen to store a lot of binaries, or large ones, then an >> old fashion central VC system like SVN works better (and yes, there are good >> reasons to store binaries in a VC system). >> >> and +1 for the tortoise tools. >> >> -- >> Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ >> xmpp:y...@zioup.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lopsa.org >> http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
