Re: BLOBs in cvs

[Peter Bowen <pzb ximian com>]

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.

Thanks.
Peter