Cleaning up VDrift source tree

[joevenzon]

Let's keep data on sourceforge. DVCSs aren't that useful for binary files.

Do you have any data to back up this statement? I do not see how DVCS are conceptional less useful for binary files. To my knowledge SVN specifically does not handle binary files any better than Git does.

DVCSs allow multiple users to work on the same things independently of a central authority, which is the big advantage that puts the D in DVCS. However, binary files cannot be merged. That means more than one user can't be working on the same file at the same time, or their changes will conflict, and someone will need to redo their work. With centralized version control you can lock files you are editing to prevent others from working on that file at the same time, with DVCS you cannot (to my knowledge).

Other stuff specific to git: I had heard that a git repository size grows much faster with binary file changes than an SVN repository. I had also heard that the way git works on a blob level (versioning the content of files, not the file itself) makes it really slow at scanning for updated files (since it needs to hash everything to determine if it changed) while subversion can cheat by looking at file properties. This info may be out of date. If you set up a test git data repo we can do some experiments.