[braindeath]

> The general consensus is that putting big files in git means you're doing something wrong and the problem is with your environment not git.

This is not a “general” consensus. It’s a consensus among hardcore proponents of git. I love git, it has made my life better. I still think it’s large file support story is shitty/suboptimal, and there are valid use cases where a general purpose VCS is used to track large binary assets along code and git would do well to be a general purpose VCS. It’s a limitation of git. It’s not a fatal limitation, and git still has enough benefits (which include availability and mindshare), but it is still an unfortunate limitation and somewhat ironic for a tool born in a world where everything is just a “sequence of bytes”.