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Asked: 2026-05-13T02:04:02+00:00

I am working on a system that will have several hundred thousand XML files,

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I am working on a system that will have several hundred thousand XML files, ranging from 2K to 1MB in size. Does anyone have experience using version control with >300k files? Will SVN or git become problematic?

I am familiar with SVN but have no experience with any other version control.

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I have tried both SVN and git with 120,000 XML files, weighing 1.2 GB. git works much better, SVN becomes very slow with this many files. On a Mac, both SvnX and gitX choke on the repos, so it’s command line all the way.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m working on a project that involves somewhere around 300K XML (and other) files. Subversion (hosted on a Linux VM) seems to handle it just fine. The only caveat is that commits involving changes to large subsets (around 50,000 files) can take a very long time. I have had to parcel them out (e.g. execute an svn commit for each subdirectory instead of the whole) in order to get them to work.

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