Re: [AD] move demo.dat to SVN?

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-05-24, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 18:59 +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2007-05-20, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is there any reason not to move demo.dat into SVN?
> > 
> > Slow checkouts?  At worse we could put it in SVN but not in default
> > place.
> > 
> 
> Yes, but usually, you do "svn up" instead of "svn co", so it won't be
> slower at all. In return, you don't have to hunt for demo.dat every time
> you want to try the demo and did an svn-clean in the meantime. So
> especially for dialup users, it would save time and bandwith if it was
> in SVN in its right place.

I have 6+ copies of demo.dat lying around right now so finding a copy is
not very hard, and if I do a fresh check out of Allegro it's usually not
to run the demo game.  But it wouldn't actually be detrimental to me,
seeing as svk checks out from a local mirror of the repository anyway.

Peter