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Comment by kazinator

10 years ago

How does BitKeeper scale to large projects? (Like, say, gigabytes of binaries.) This is a weak area of Git.

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From the "Why" page:

BitKeeper’s Binary Asset Manager (BAM) preserves resources and keeps access fast by providing local storage as needed.

BAM is great for any organization that handles:

* Videos

* Photos

* Artwork

* Office files

* CAD files

* Any large binary files

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luckydude  10 years ago

I've been using BK/BAM for my photos, it's got 56GB of data in there and works great. I cheat because I added a way to check things out that uses hardlinks instead copies and I can check out the whole tree in 6 seconds. Doing the copy takes a lot longer: 9+ minutes. Hardlinks rock.

On the commercial site there is a link to some BAM paper, take a look at that and maybe ask in the forum or irc if this gets lost.