Version control for large binary files and >1TB repositories?

Question

Sorry to come up with this topic again, as there are soo many other questions already related - but none that covers my problem directly.

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Answer 1

Version control systems are for source code, not binary builds. You are better off just using standard network file server backup tapes for binary file backup - even though it's largely unnecessary when you have source code control since you can just rebuild any version of any binary at any time. Trying to put binaries in source code control is a mistake.

What you are really talking about is a process known as configuration management. If you have thousands of unique software packages, your business should have a configuration manager (a person, not software ;-) ) who manages all of the configurations (a.k.a. builds) for development, testing, release, release-per-customer, etc.