Distributed version control for HUGE projects - is it feasible?

Question

We\'re pretty happy with SVN right now, but Joel\'s tutorial intrigued me. So I was wondering - would it be feasible in our situation too?

The thing is - our SVN reposit

Answer 1

100MB of source code is less than the Linux kernel. Changelog between Linux kernel 2.6.33 and 2.6.34-rc1 has 6604 commits. Your repository scale doesn't sound intimidating to me.

• Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc1 uncompressed from .tar.bz2 archive: 445MB
• Linux kernel 2.6 head checked out from main Linus tree: 827MB

Twice as much, but still peanuts with the big hard drives we all have.