For those of you that use distributed version control systems, how well do they fare with large files (>600MB)
I am particularly curious about mercurial and git.
I can’t answer your question - but server-less version control effectively means you need to store everything twice locally. So your DVC will store that 600meg binary file twice on your local machine when you check it in - and every revision is likely to be around another 600 megs. So a few revisions of that 600meg file can quickly eat up space on your disk and everyone else’s disk…
We’re using SVN and TFS, and so I can’t really speak to the particulars of DVC systems, but I would hope that these systems would only store the difference data between revisions.
Heres a recent article that might be applicable for you: Mercurial/Kiln experience so far · Aras' website
Very interesting read. Thanks 