alt Hacker NewsVisual Studio and Xcode take up tens of gigabytes, are updated often, and include system components. Storing them in VCS is impossible, and would be a waste of disk space.
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dist-epoch • today at 7:01 AM
You could consider ZFS a VCS, and it can easily store multiple versions (snapshots) of Visual Studio.
It's not impossible, there just isn't that much demand for it.
Disagree. They’re stored _somewhwre_ anyway, and they may as well be versioned.
Putting toolchains in perforce is how it works for lots of C++ shops, the setup instructions are “sync and hit build”, whether there’s a toolchain upgrade required or not