Document Revision Control

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Mon Sep 24 08:59:12 PDT 2012


Engineers generally compile binaries from text source. Checking those
binaries into source control makes no sense.

When a source format is binary it belongs in source control. FM files
take up more space than e.g. Java source, but hard drives are so cheap
these days it's not anything anyone needs to worry about.

> From: Joseph Lorenzini <jaloren at gmail.com>
> 1. committing large binary files is considered bad form and frowned upon
> from an engineering point of view. That's because SVN doesn't manage
> binaries nearly as well as it can handle text files.



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