On 9/23/2011 3:59 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Cory Riddell <c...@codeware.com> wrote: >> I'm thinking about committing all the third party libraries that our >> application depends on to make it easier to checkout a buildable set of >> files from the past. >> >> Some of the libraries are around a gigabyte each. Right now our >> repository has around a decade of history and is 5 GB. If we start >> stuffing third party libraries into it, the repository could grow to 50 >> GB in a few years. Is a 50 GB repository going to be significantly >> slower than our current 5 GB one? > I'd be more concerned about future maintenance issues than operational > speed. A 50 GB repo is going to be substantially harder to deal with > if you ever need to dump/filter/load to pull something out. Why not > use separate repositories and reference the components with externals? >
Both you and Mark suggested I use externals. I've avoided using externals because I've read more than one article advising against them. I'm going to have to rethink this I guess. Can you use them without abusing them? cory
