[okfn-discuss] We Need Distributed Revision/Version Control for Data

Mon Jul 12 21:04:52 UTC 2010

On 12 July 2010 20:50, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>> I have used normal SCM to store some of my data.
>> My problem is that often updates takes lots of time even in very little has changed.
>
> I wonder if http://git-SCM.com solves any of these performance issues.
>
> It is claimed to be very efficient - even with binary data.

I tried both git and mercurial on large datasets.  Git was better, but
not good enough.  These were v large files YMMV.