hg and binary repository

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Fri Nov 30 22:04:39 UTC 2007


On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:06:12PM -0500, Jorey Bump wrote:
> Martin Marques wrote, at 11/30/2007 06:06 AM:
> > I'm curious about one thing: How scalable is hg in tracking a binary
> > repository, for example a repository with word documents?
> 
> I use it to track web sites that contain HTML, images, PDF and Word 
> documents. Some of these sites have hundreds of revisions, and hg keeps 
> up very well.
> 
> I also track master Word documents in independent repositories. I highly 
> recommend tracking each title as a distinct project. Managing unrelated 
> resources in a single repo doesn't scale well, and results in a noisy log.
> 
> If I ever set up my recording studio again, I'll see if hg can handle 
> tracking sound files in a song project. That would be a real test!

0.9.5 can handle single files over 500MB commits on my 1.5G laptop,
so it should do ok for most audio projects.

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