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

Do you need all history? If you only need the last year or two, you could consider leaving the current repository in a read-only state for historical reference. Then create a new repository with only recent history by performing svnadmin dump with the lower bound revision, which forms the basis for your new distributed repository.

I do agree with the other answer that 100MB working copy and 68K revisions isn't that big. Give it a shot.