Comments on: A Binary Problem http://www.jeffongames.com/2008/10/a-binary-problem/ This is Jeff. This is Jeff On Games. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://www.jeffongames.com/2008/10/a-binary-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-28398 Jeff Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:23:48 +0000 http://www.jeffongames.com/2008/10/a-binary-problem/#comment-28398 I looked at git originally, and you hit my major problem with it (it's lack of windows support). I also feel like its been hacked together. Mercurial at least provides a very extensible interface through Python. That said I've never officially ruled out git as a possibility. The 10MB "limit" is just a warning though. It handles larger than that just fine, just warns it might be a problem. With ALL DCVS though, large assets is an issue. There's no reason my artists should keep the entire repository on their drive, it just doesn't make sense. Maybe change hashes, but that's about it. I looked at git originally, and you hit my major problem with it (it’s lack of windows support). I also feel like its been hacked together. Mercurial at least provides a very extensible interface through Python. That said I’ve never officially ruled out git as a possibility.

The 10MB “limit” is just a warning though. It handles larger than that just fine, just warns it might be a problem. With ALL DCVS though, large assets is an issue. There’s no reason my artists should keep the entire repository on their drive, it just doesn’t make sense. Maybe change hashes, but that’s about it.

]]> By: Jakub NarÄ™bski http://www.jeffongames.com/2008/10/a-binary-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-28397 Jakub NarÄ™bski Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:13:31 +0000 http://www.jeffongames.com/2008/10/a-binary-problem/#comment-28397 What about using Git (http://git.or.cz, http://git-scm.com) instead of Mercurial? I think it doesn't have problems with large files, at least not with 10MB files.[1] The problem with Git might be working on MS Windows; you can use Git via Cygwin, or use native version from msysGit. Equivalent of TortoiseHG, named Git-Cheetah is in very early stages of development. Additionally Git is rumored to be more difficult than Mercurial; IMHO it is caused by the fact that Git is more powerfull (c.f. multiple branches and tags). [1] Dana How worked on better performance with large files (and not all patches got accpeted), but I think "large" was an order of magnitude larger... What about using Git (http://git.or.cz, http://git-scm.com) instead of Mercurial? I think it doesn’t have problems with large files, at least not with 10MB files.[1]

The problem with Git might be working on MS Windows; you can use Git via Cygwin, or use native version from msysGit. Equivalent of TortoiseHG, named Git-Cheetah is in very early stages of development. Additionally Git is rumored to be more difficult than Mercurial; IMHO it is caused by the fact that Git is more powerfull (c.f. multiple branches and tags).

[1] Dana How worked on better performance with large files (and not all patches got accpeted), but I think “large” was an order of magnitude larger…

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