Gilles-Eric Descamps wrote:
>
> When you're in company mode, you don't use
> cheap disk on each PC because it becomes
> a mess. You use a network file server
> - with expensive certified fiber disk -
> and a tape backup, because you need to have
> a garantee that your downtime will be less
> than a day per year. With that kind of
> tools, the GB costs you something like $750/GB
>
> Now, if your company is doing chip design,
> some of the files are 600MB EACH. The whole
> repository is several GB...
> You definitively don't want to duplicate this.
>
> A commercial version control/problem tracking tool
> like synchronicity offers that kind of cache feature,
> but it's expensive (even more than the file server).
CVS does many jobs extremely well. One attractive thing
about CVS is that it is very light-weight. We like it
that way. It has limitations, but it's simplicity makes
up for it.
CVS does not do the things you ask, for a reason.
If your company has "fiber-channel"-type money, I think trying
to save a few dollars by using CVS is false economy
to the extreme.
As an example, here in HP we use Rational ClearCase. ClearCase
solves the "wasted diskspace from everyone's unchanged files"
problem very nicely. It also handles large files and binary
files much better than CVS. And it handles structural
changes to the repository very well, which is a known
weakness of CVS.
Sure it's hideously expensive, but in this case you're
getting what you pay for.
I am not advocating actually using ClearCase (hell, it's a
constant pain to use, and from an admin pov I have cause to
curse it daily), but I do want to point out that if your
company wants an industrial strength large-scale solution, it
should be prepared to pay for it.
Regards,
Mitch.
PS: Not intended as a flame. More of a setting-of-expectations.
--
| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Not the official view of: |
| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Australian Calculator Opn |
| Certified Linux Evangelist! | Hewlett Packard Australia |
