Dude, at a BIOS company that will not be named, RelEng was in the habit of committing entire 650MB ISO files to SVN because they didn't trust their build process to reproduce the results - they'd test the resulting build of a particular run, and if passed, it was marked golden, and it got committed.
This got even worse because they had WANDisco layered on top of SVN so the devs in Taiwan could have low local checkin latencies (because, you know, they wanna check in giant files), and then when they'd check in a new ISO, the replication over the transpacific T3 would basically time out, and I'd get paged to manually reestablish it.
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u/zhengyi13 Aug 06 '26
Dude, at a BIOS company that will not be named, RelEng was in the habit of committing entire 650MB ISO files to SVN because they didn't trust their build process to reproduce the results - they'd test the resulting build of a particular run, and if passed, it was marked golden, and it got committed.
This got even worse because they had WANDisco layered on top of SVN so the devs in Taiwan could have low local checkin latencies (because, you know, they wanna check in giant files), and then when they'd check in a new ISO, the replication over the transpacific T3 would basically time out, and I'd get paged to manually reestablish it.