svn - How good is Subversion at storing lots of binary files?

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There's a difference between lots of big binary files, and a big number of binary files.

In my experience SVN is fine with individual binary files of several hundred megabytes. The only problems I've seen begin to occur with individual files of around a gigabyte or so. Operations fail for mysterious and unknown reasons, possibly SVN failing to handle network related problems.

I am not aware of any SVN problems related to the number of binary files, beyond their lack of merge-ability and the fact that binary files often can't be efficiently stored as deltas (SVN can use deltas).

So;

• 1000 1MB files = fine.
• 100 10MB files = fine
• 10 100MB files = fine
• 1 >1000MB file = not a good idea.

I would hope the size of your documents fits into one of the fine categories :)