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Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by imtringued on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:01AM (#21980504)
That is a solution but then it's no longer distributed.
Re:Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019) by alkonaut on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:56AM (#21989002)
Being distributive isn’t a feature for the binary files contents. I don’t want 100 historical versions of a huge game texture, just the latest one. The history is distributed however, so I can see who changed the texture even when disconnected. Centralized binaries like git LFS works like any package/asset manager.

There is no one that would want distributed binaries in git. But people also don’t want to switch from git to something else just because they have a 100GB or 10TB repo. Tooling (build tools, issue management) everywhere has decided that git is all that’s needed.

Not putting binaries in git isn’t a solution at all. Binaries are part of the source in many applications (e.g game assets, web site images...). Distributing every version of every binary to everyone is also not a solution.