[Tfug] Using Subversion for my home dir

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 12:28:14AM -0700, Matt Jacob wrote:
> I did find that article initially, but he didn't mention 
> anything about how well Subversion works with larger files or 
> many, many GBs of files. Granted, he did mention that he was 
> thinking about putting his music and larger files under version 
> control, but it was just hypothetical at the time of the 
> article. On the other hand, there's an update on his site that 
> says he's using git now anyway, and I've heard git has better 
> performance than Subversion.

I would seriously recommend not putting large binary files under 
version control unless you *want* versioning on them. If you just 
want to share them across machines you are probably best writing 
a script.

Use subversion/git/etc to store the files on which you want 
versioning.

-- 
Glen