VersionControl for huge codebase

Question

Hi,

Our project's codebase is more than 9GB. Mostly Cobol, Pro*Cobol & Java files along with other config files. We are currently using SVN to manage it and during integrated check-outs and builds SVN's performance is bad. For example to checkout the complete sources it takes >4hrs and if we commit say 12 or more files it takes close to 30min. Appreciate suggestions on how to tune SVN or any alternate open source version control to handle this volume of codebase. Thanks

-RamVenkat

Answer 1

Short answer, actually just one word: git. Or to be not so straight forward: "Why don't you try and evaluate git?" see: http://git-scm.com/

There are tools to migrate from svn to git which should make it easy for you to start testing. look at: http://www.jonmaddox.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/