RE: [GD-General] Re: asset & document management

[Nathan R. <Nat...@te...>]

> How does it handle an artist that creates 182 versions of a 80 megabyte
> binary file in the course of 3 weeks? I suppose CVS would end up with 14
> GB
> of archives, by which time it has probably long croaked :-)
> 
> I've looked at Perforce in the past, it's a really nice product, simliar
> to
> what we already know. But does it handle really, really large amounts of
> data?

Have you looked at Subversion at all? (subversion.tigris.org) 

Subversion uses compressed binary diffs, so it does a very impressive job of
keeping a file's history small.

It's not terribly mature just yet, unfortunately, so you're lacking all of
the nifty tools that CVS/Perforce/etc all have going for them. I've never
used it outside a screwing-around-at-home capacity, so I can't vouch for its
reliability in a production environment, but it has worked great for me so
far.