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Björn Carlsson wrote: > Like media files in the Gigabyte class? > TBH for files that big you don't want the overhead of a VCS handling them... it's going to take a while even to copy them over a network, never mind processing them (you might get away with a fast box with 3GB of RAM but a 100MB network will take between 5 and 15 minutes to transfer them and the diff will probably take about 15 minutes on a fast server box - 30 minutes just to checkout the file.. not worth it). The largest I've stored in CVS was about 300MB and that was probably a bad idea itself.. (that was about 5 minutes per checkout, which seriously slowed everyone down - we didn't have per-file locking on that server). Tony