[Tfug] Using Subversion for my home dir
Glen Pfeiffer
glen at thepfeiffers.net
Tue Jun 24 08:57:27 MST 2008
On Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 08:32:49AM -0500, Timothy Ottinger wrote:
>
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Why is that?
You're right. I should have said "except if you want to use git".
In most other RCSs, it just isn't worth it. The increase in size
causes instability, and like Chris, I too would be worried about
corruption.
--
Glen
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