Re: BLOBs in cvs

[Yanko Kaneti <yaneti declera com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 17:35, Peter Bowen wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:30, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > Currently there are a number of (relatively) big files in cvs that often
> > make updating from cvs a bit of a problem. They also take space, and
> > from what I've heard from cvs experts  they take large amounts of memory
> > on the server whenever accessed.
> > 
> > To name a few, just from the web-devel-2 module  (size in Ks):
> > 428	./content/projects/gup/hig/fop/lib/jimi.jar
> > 680	./content/projects/gtp/style-guides/pdf/styleguide-ja.pdf
> > 892	./content/projects/gup/hig/fop/lib/xalan-2.3.1.jar
> > 928	./content/projects/gup/ut1_report.pdf
> > 1660	./content/projects/gup/hig/fop/build/fop.jar
> > 1696	./content/projects/gup/hig/fop/lib/xercesImpl-2.0.1.jar
> > 1916	./content/projects/gup/hig/1.0/hig-1.0.pdf
> > 2120	./content/projects/gup/hig/fop/lib/batik.jar
> 
> These are all reasonable to have in the web root.  jar and pdf files
> are, presumable, designed to be viewed in the browser, and need to come
> across with proper headers.

This doesnt make them appropriate for a cvs module imho.

It shouldnt be a big problem to move them elsewhere and repoint the *ml
content to that.


Regards
Yanko
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