[lmz]

An svn working copy has one version stored locally. A git clone has all versions stored locally. All versions of a large file takes up lots of space.

[tpoacher]

I see. So the idea is not that svn's handling of large files at the repo-level is somehow better than that of a git repo per se, but that it's fine for the (possibly remote) svn repo to take the 'large file' hit, since the (presumably local) wc is disjoint from it, and thus unaffected in terms of local storage. Ok, that makes sense...

I've been using a decentralised svn workflow at work for so long, I didn't even think of this :)

[cerved]

I suppose it depends how much disk you have :P