Git is brilliant. It is fast, intuitive and flexible. At FST we use it for all of our revision control. We moved to git some time ago after evaluating the usual options and trying the tla implementation of arch out for a while.

However…..

Its pretty bulky for binary data blobs.

I’m checking in a media library of albums and album covers for a project, and the 2.5G source took about 1 hour to push to the origin and git added another 2.5G to the repository, bringing it to 5G.

Since we won’t be changing the data very often, a single checkout should be enough.