managing art assets with subversion

[toni <to...@4dvirtual.com>]

Hello, i'm developing a project with tons of 3d models, textures and 
such and well, we've decided to install svn to give it a try (we were 
using cvs before), but until now we used only a repository for source code.
Well, after talking with artists we've decided to add all art to the svn 
repository too. But a lot of questions from artists arised, i put them 
here, if anyone can help... well, thanx :)

1) "Hey what happens if i'm working with an up to date 3d chair model 
and comes the guy B and starts working with the same model?" Of course 
that's a BIG problem, is there any way to lock a file so nobody can 
update it from repository until it's commited again and then unlocked?
2) "Hey, but models take lot of space, and i usually have  lot of 
versions of a model, if it's all in repository, won't we run of out 
space quickly?" I told him "don't worry, probabhly you can purge all 
versions of something, excepting the last",  am i right?

Thanx in advance,
Toni


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Re: managing art assets with subversion

[Mike Mason <mg...@thoughtworks.net>]

toni wrote:

> 1) "Hey what happens if i'm working with an up to date 3d chair model 
> and comes the guy B and starts working with the same model?" Of course 
> that's a BIG problem, is there any way to lock a file so nobody can 
> update it from repository until it's commited again and then unlocked?


Not yet -- locking is a very-often-requested feature and will be added 
to Subversion in future (I'm not sure of the schedule though). Depending 
on your modelling tool it might be possible to obtain a merge tool that 
can help you merge changes from multiple developers. Yes, this probably 
isn't quite what you want for art assets, sorry! Things like AlienBrain 
might be worth looking at (although they cost a fair bit).

> 2) "Hey, but models take lot of space, and i usually have  lot of 
> versions of a model, if it's all in repository, won't we run of out 
> space quickly?" I told him "don't worry, probabhly you can purge all 
> versions of something, excepting the last",  am i right? 


I think you're asking about "svn obliterate", which also doesn't exist 
(yet). Subversion stores all files, including binaries, by efficiently 
computing the difference between revisions, and just storing the diffs, 
so it handles binaries way better than CVS. You could try storing some 
models in a test repository, changing them, and watching how much space 
you're using up.

Cheers,
Mike.

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