From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:34:41 GMT
Subject: Re: vcs for hefty video and graphics files
Message-ID: <jwvr5e91fj2.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <877hg55iyd.fsf@newsguy.com>

> It would involve on any one projects something like 15 to 60 GB of
> stuff to keep up with.  Large numbers of images and a dozen or 2 dozen
> video files.  All in some stake of compression depending on the codex.

FWIW, for a VCS to do a good job on this kind of problem, you'd need
to use a representation that lends itself to it.

I.e. regardless of what you end up doing, I would recommend you contact
the mailing-list of Free Software that can do the kind of video
manipulation you want to do, and tell them that you'd need their tool to
represent a project in such a way that it has a bunch of big-files that
are almost never modified (containing "binary data" such as the source
images and audio recordings, say) along with a few other smaller files
that mostly contain instructions about how to use the big-files to
generate the desired output.

Such a representation should lead to very good support from most VCSs.
E.g. If these small files use a clean text representation, then a VCS
might even be able to do useful merges between different branches of
a project (as long as the branches share the same big-files).


        Stefan