On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: > Brian Candler wrote: > > Here's a wacky idea - I don't know if anyone's considered it before. > > > > Suppose you checked a full *binary* FreeBSD distribution into Subversion > > (that is, untar all the distribution bundles and then svn import) > > > Is there any value in pursuing this idea? > > Unless performance problems arise when there are several versions of > the ~~300 MB tree (for the base system) in the repository, this is > actually a nice idea! Using fsfs I've done something similar. The major problem I had was that "large" transactions (revisions) tended to slow any operations that had to hunt through them to a crawl. Not completely sure that svn is the right vc tool for that, but with the "right" one it's an interesting approach. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Usenet: The separation of content AND presentation - simultaneously.Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 08:59:01 UTC
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