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Re:Why Git is Better Than X by asjo on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @12:08PM (#383246)
> I don't know git well enough to know these, except for one: handling large binary files that change frequently.

For the curious among us: what systems handle this better than git?

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Re:Why Git is Better Than X by silentbicycle on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @11:36PM (#385313)
This seems fundamentally different from what VCSs are usually designed for, and another category of tool may handle the problem better. Rsync might be a good start.
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Re:Why Git is Better Than X by apu on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @08:52PM (#383880)
Subversion is not terrible at this. It stores binary diffs.
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Re:Why Git is Better Than X by pmjordan on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @07:03AM (#384271)
Maybe they've improved this in recent versions, but I remember this being excruciatingly slow.
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