[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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