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

From my experience, Mercurial is pretty good at handling a large number of files and a huge history. The drawback is that you shouldn't check-in files bigger than 10 Mb. We used Mercurial to keep an history of our compiled DLL. It's not recommend to put binaries in a source countrol but we tried it anyway (it was a repository dedicated to the binaries). The repository was about 2 Gig and we are not too sure that we will be able to keep doing that in the future. Anyway, for source code I don't think you need to worry.