Hello,

This might not be a hard core programming question, but it's related to some of the tools used by programmers I suspect.

So we're a bunch of people each with a bunch of documents and a bunch of different computers on a bunch of operating systems (well, only 2, linux and windows). The best way these documents can be stored/managed is if they were available offline (the laptop might not always be online) but also synchronized between all the machines. Having a server with extra reliable storage be a "base repository" seems like a good idea to me.

Using a SCM comes to my mind and I've tried Subversion, and it seems to be a good thing that it uses a centralized repository - but:

• When checking out the total size of the checkout is roughly double the original size.
• Big files or big repositories seem to slow it down.

Also I've tried rsync, which might work - but it's a bit rough when it comes to the potential conflict.

Finally I've tried Unison (which is a wrapping of rsync, I think) and while it works it becomes horribly slow for the big directories we have here since it has to scan everything.

So the question is - is there a SCM tool out there that is actually practial to use for a big bunch of both small and big files? If thats a NO - does anyone know other tools that do this job?

Thanks for reading :)