Re: Binary files

It is known, that git handles badly storing binary files in its repositories at all. This is especially about large files: even without any changes to these files, their copies are snapshotted on each commit. So even repositories with a small amount of code can grove very fast in size if they contain some great binary files. Alongside this, the SVN is much better about that, because it make changes to the server version of file only if some changes were done.

So the question is: why not implementing some feature, that would somehow handle this problem?

Of course, I don't know the internal git structure and the way of working + some nuances (likely about the snapshots at all and the way they are done), so handling this may be a great problem. But the easiest feature for me as an end user will be something like '.gitbinary', where I can list binary files, that would behave like on SVN, or even more optimal, if you can implement it. Maybe there will be a need for separate kinds of repositories, or even servers. But that would be a great change and a logical way of next git's evolution.