Should a website's images folder and images be stored in SVN repository?

Question

I'm currently importing all of our PHP websites into SVN repositories. Each site has a images folder which contains all the sites images. The images are updated quite frequently as most of them are offer graphics.

Should the images (binaries) be stored in the repository?

The other issue is that they are updated all the time. How would you update images frequently that are in your working copy as you can't edit the source in a text edit like you would a source file they would need to be replaced with updated images, how would the version system handle this?

Answer 1

SVN is capable to handle binary files, including (but not limited to) images. You can use it like a normal text file. The only difference is once changed, it's changed as a whole, not as a patch like normal text files.

Answer 2

If you want to see a "SNAPSHOT" of your site in a given time (Track the appearance in history) then the answer is YES :).