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by pswenson 4455 days ago
also, you can sync to a subdirectory in SVN - not git.

1) yeah, although I question the sanity of doing this. 2) is this related to #3? 3) yes, but IMO VCS should be used for source files (mostly). large assets should go in an artifact repo. But you are right - putting giant files in git is a terrible idea, especially if you change them often.
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masklinn 4455 days ago
> yeah, although I question the sanity of doing this.

the sanity of access control?

> is this related to #3?

Not necessarily.

> yes, but IMO VCS should be used for source files (mostly). large assets should go in an artifact repo

Great, so now the code and the assets going with the code, both being used to build the product, are completely out of sync and essentially unsyncable?

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pswenson 4455 days ago
>the sanity of access control? only at a directory level, git has it at a repo level.

>Great, so now the code and the assets going with the code, both being used to build the product, are completely out of sync and essentially unsyncable?

no. read up on artifact repositories. you declare the asset version that you depend on in your a build script. the assets are fetched from the artifact repo.

there pros and cons of course...

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masklinn 4455 days ago
> no. read up on artifact repositories. you declare the asset version that you depend on in your a build script.

Yes, that's "essentially unsyncable" when you have thousands of assets and have to keep them synchronised by hand. It has the same sanity as considering tarballs to be a good version-control scheme.

> there pros and cons of course...

I see no pros compared to a VCS which can handle code and other assets in the same repository and keep them naturally synchronised by virtue of them being naturally synchronised.

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pswenson 4455 days ago
you don't sync them by hand. ever heard of ruby gems, maven, gradle, npm? these assets are all versioned and available via http.

these assets can be referenced by many other systems, not just your source repo.

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masklinn 4454 days ago
> you don't sync them by hand.

Don't you now? How else is your tool going to know which version of an asset it's supposed to fetch from the asset store without you telling it?

> ever heard of ruby gems, maven, gradle, npm? these assets are all versioned and available via http.

> these assets can be referenced by many other systems, not just your source repo.

Wow, great, now game developers can do something they have absolutely no desire to do, at the small cost of not being able to do what they need. I'm sure they'll be thrilled.

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