Re: cvs for media files?
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 08:52 -0600, Michael Schurter wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
> > I'm going to be working on a collaborative audio documentary, probablay
> > using audacity. I would love to do some kind of version control on
> > the project, sowe could all work on the documentary at home & then
> > merge (and accept/reeject) our changes somehow. But probably this
> > will involve incremental changes to a significant number of media
> > files. Does anyone know whether there's a version-control system which
> > can handle such changes to binary files easily and clearly? I don't
>
> Subversion (aka svn) does binary-differencing both when transmitting
> changes and storing them, so it should be much more efficient than CVS
> when dealing with binary files. I have no idea how well it would handle
> a multi-gigabyte video file, but its worth a try.
subversion suggests using their file locking mechanism when working with
binary/media files that subversion cant merge.
-matt zagrabelny
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