In my previous company we setup Subversion to store CAD files. Files upto 100 MB were stored in Subversion. If many people ‘add’ big files to Subversion webserver can be a bottleneck. However, incremental commits were perfectly ok. Subversion stored ‘binary delta’. In fact, on server side, binary and text files are treated exactly same … Read more
There have been a few answers that can work: Create a pre-commit hook script that reject the commit when a specific property is being added. You can then add this property to files in the working copy to prevent commits. TortoiseSVN will exclude files in the special changelist “ignore-on-commit”. However, this is not honored by … Read more
What’s going on here: Git is optimized to switch between branches as quickly as possible. In particular, git checkout is designed to not touch any files that are identical in both branches. Unfortunately, RCS keyword substitution breaks this. For example, using $Date$ would require git checkout to touch every file in the tree when switching … Read more
Git doesn’t track renames at all, but uses heuristic to re-discover them during merge etc. Mercurial tracks renames (the origin version and origin file is recorded) and uses that information during merges. So you have to explicitly tell hg about renames with hg mv, or use hg addremove –similarity for auto-discovery. There has been some … Read more
There’s nothing in particular in DVCSs that makes merging easier. It’s simply cultural: a DVCS wouldn’t work at all if merging were hard, so DVCS developers invest a lot of time and effort into making merging easy. CVCS users OTOH are used to crappy merging, so there’s no incentive for the developers to make it … Read more
There’s no single “silver bullet” answer here and it would all greatly depend on details. First of all, I consider best practice to separate all source code from configuration in separate repository. So, source code remains source code, but it’s installation or deployment (with configuration, passwords, etc) is the whole other thing. This way you’ll … Read more
It is possible but not necessarily simple: the problem you are trying to solve is dangerously close to setting up a distributed development environment which is not exactly what SVN is designed for. The SVN-mirror way You can use svn mirror as explained in the SVN book documentation to create a read-only mirror of your … Read more
I used VisualSVN until Ankh hit 2.0, and ever since, I’ve abandoned VisualSVN. Ankh has surpassed VisualSVN in functionality, in my mind, and all the 1.x perf and integration issues are gone.
Same as your other code, add a “Database project” to your application solution and keep the sql files used to build the database objects in there. Use the same version control for those code files as you do for the application.
It is possible to manually identify a file located within a repository as binary by using: svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream <filename> This is generally not necessary, as Subversion will attempt to determine whether a file is binary when the file is first added. If Subversion is incorrectly tagging a certain type as “text” when it … Read more