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

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

So you use your own tool ? Can you elaborate on it ? :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bleisch [mailto:pa...@mi...]
> Sent: 16 May 2003 16:33
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: RE: [GD-General] Re: asset & document management
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mickael Pointier [mailto:mpo...@ed...] 
> > To: gam...@li...
> > 
> > Would be interesting to have some hard numbers here about the 
> > size of assets you are all managing on your projects.
> 
> 
> We just finished our game and here are some numbers on my
> development client on my machine.  I'm a dev so art and design
> enlistments would be slightly different but close to this because
> I tended to sync everything plus some.
> 
> The following includes source code, source art assets and source
> game/level data but no compiled artifacts for a single codeline
> of the game -- all told, we made 59 branches during development --
> 5 of those "full" branches.
> 
> 62341 total files and 14.5 Gb in total size
> 
> On the server side, the depot consumes a total of 61 Gb of diskspace
> and contains (including deleted revisions) 
> 
> The time it takes to sync depends on how much stuff changed.  Most 
> times it takes less than a couple seconds and my syncing behavior
> was driven more by the risk-reward payoff of picking up other peoples
> changes.
> 
>  
> 
> > When I see these numbers, I wonder how it's possible to get 
> > fast versioning programs that perform CRC, compression, archiving...
> 
> We started using our current version control system in May of 2001
> and it has served us perfectly well (in fact it improved the quality
> and stability of the game/toolset considerably).  The cases where 
> we had performance issues with the depot were always related to 
> too little physical memory (which is easily remedied).
> 
> I think if you look into who is using commercial packages like
> Perforce and other such tools, you'll see that the amount and size
> of artifacts they have under control is pretty large.  I seem to
> recall nvidia using Perforce and having extremely large depot sizes
> (in the 80-90 Gb range IIRC).
> 
> Paul
> 
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