OT - store only the latest version of some files

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

Hi,
   I am wondering if cvs has capability to do this. If not please tell
me what the right tool is.

   We are using debian sid. I have a project which we need to maintain
the source code by a version control system. The project also deals
with some data files (around 20 or so text files each 100MB).

   The data files can be substantially different between succesive
versions. So we do not want to store the data file as diffs (as it
consumes a lot of space). Moreover, The data files can be generated
once you the source code is available. But generating the data files
takes up a long time.

   So the solution we came up with is "to store only the latest
version of the data files and remove any older versions". I am
wondering if cvs is capable of doing this namely "to store the source
code with version control and to store only the latest version of the
data files"?

   We are not particular on using cvs for version control. So if there
is other version control program capable of achieving the above, we
will be glad to shift.

thanks in advance
raju



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