A project I've been working on

2021-11-12 Thread Robert Hickman
Hi people, I've been working on a 'subversion replacement' for the last 5 ish years called 'simple http file sync' (shttpfs), a centralized version control system for binary files. SHTTPFS was created to manage changes to a lot of binary image and video files across multiple computers. The nature

Re: Who else is using SVN for large-binary-asset storage?

2020-05-04 Thread Robert Hickman
I used to use SVN to store and version binary image files, and the storage bloat of duplicating all of them in a checkout became unlivable. I asked about fixing this problem in SVN at the time, and it went nowhere. After trying numerous other tools and having nothing work reliably I ended up wr

Re: How to synchronise a SVN repository with a local one

2017-11-01 Thread Robert Hickman
I second the advice to use git, unless you are working with a lot of binary files. On 01/11/17 14:38, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Eckard Klotz wrote on Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:56 +0100: C:\Project...>*svnsync initialize https://.../p/moritz/Archive_SVN/ file:///C:/Project/.../ArchievĀ  --disable-locking

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Robert Hickman
> Mine uses Subversions WebDAV as is. What is subversions WebDAV interface like to work with? >> * Atomic file system operations through journaling. > I've no server side beyond Subversion. The journaling system was mostly needed on the client. During a 'checkout' any file being placed in the lo

Re: Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-27 Thread Robert Hickman
just over 1000 lines of python and a good chunk of that is a journaling file-system interface. On 27 September 2017 at 12:16, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 06:01:33AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Sep 26, 2017, at 13:13, Robert Hickman wrote: >> &

Checkout without storing two copies

2017-09-26 Thread Robert Hickman
Hello, I tend to work on projects with a large amount of binary data along with source code and need to track them together. To this date Subversion is the only tool that I've used which handles this dependably. That being said I have one major issue with it - the last time I used SVN it stored tw