Source Control for Binaries, Specifically Flash

[Chris Chong]

Anyone have success versioning binaries, specifically flash files
(.fla/.swf)?

Our team checks in a lot of flash files and it is making our
repositories grow huge. Pruning is not really a long term solution
for us as the scm tool does not handle it well. Are there any good
systems out there that handle binaries really well?


Thanks.

Chris

[David Masterson]

>>>>> Chris Chong writes:
Our team checks in a lot of flash files and it is making our repositories grow huge. Pruning is not really a long term solution for us as the scm tool does not handle it well. Are there any good systems out there that handle binaries really well?

What SCM tool are you using and why does it not handle binary files
well?

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David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA

[Chris Chong]

Yes, the files are compressed and system we use is BitKeeper. It's
more of an issue for BK b/c it is a distributed system. However,
they've proposed a solution for us that should work. Thanks for the
input.

Flash is finally coming out with a command line compiler after MX.
That should alleviate the .swf problem. According to one of our flash
developers, flash was originally intended to generate disposable
files. I still think it's ridiculous they did not provide a CLI - it
would be insane to rebuild every flash asset by hand (through the GUI)
for each build!



Dwain Wilder <dwain@bearmeadow.com> wrote in message news:<3F0A04A5.9020903@bearmeadow.com>... Are they compressing before checking in? That's the most efective space saver, as you can't generate deltas of binary files. You could probably get a tool like Clearcase to detect your binaries and automatically compress them (maybe even automatically choose the most effective compression method.). Dwain Chris Chong wrote: Anyone have success versioning binaries, specifically flash files (.fla/.swf)? Our team checks in a lot of flash files and it is making our repositories grow huge. Pruning is not really a long term solution for us as the scm tool does not handle it well. Are there any good systems out there that handle binaries really well? Thanks. Chris -- Dwain Wilder Bear Meadow Folk Instruments http://www.bearmeadow.com _______________________________ You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. - Alan Alda