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Please consider a situation of 1 byte binary file. Then consider 1 billion changes in this file. As a result file.bin,v will be *large* binary file. The same logic is appliable to text files. "David Somers" <dsomers at omz13.com> wrote in message news:e74ifu$g9s$1 at paris.nodomain.org... > Serge Nikulin wrote: > >> Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 2.5.01 (Travis) Build 1927 >> (client/server) >> >> Reproduction: >> create a large binary file.bin (~600 MB, CD ISO image is a good example). > > If you need to store *very large* binary files, is cvs the right thing to > store it in? It wasn't really designed for such things... sure, a bitmap > image that is a few K in size is OK... but multi-megabyte binary files are > not its raison d'etre. > > Normally I just store such things into a regular directory and use an > extension as a revision indicator... technically very low-tech, but it > works. > > -- > David Somers > PGP Key = 7E613D4E > Fingerprint = 53A0 D84B 7F90 F227 2EAB 4FD7 6278 E2A8 7E61 3D4E