> Dear Colin,
>
> The repository is publicly readable. For write access, please create an
> account on our community site at:
>
> http://community.crosswire.org
>
> and let me know your chosen account id and I will add write permissions
> to the tynstep repo for you.
>
> As a side note. Is it possible to version scripts that generate the
> data or something similar, rather than the dataset? Versioning binary
> data (or data with only automated changes throughout) creates really
> large repositories as each version is an entire copy of the data (for
> binary data), or useless history (like automated changes). We regularly
> backup our svn repos. So, if say you have a datasource that is 40 megs,
> with 30 checkins, that's 1.2 gigs of space of which we're saving
> multiple backup copies.
>
> Anyway, you're welcome to store what you'd like on our server, and to
> have it backed up, of course, but is versioning beneficial?
Troy,
Thanks for the warning - wasn't intending to put derived data on the
server for the reasons you suggest, and we need to be careful with
source data. (The current dictionary source is about 3M.)
Colin
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