[nuclear_eclipse]

I've tried this before with a VirtualBox image of XP. Even the base install of XP, without any updates or added software, is too large for Git to handle, or at least too large on my machine with 2GB of RAM.

[ntoshev]

According to this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374416

Git is particularly bad for large files, while good old SVN handles them Ok.

[blasdel]

And CVS handles them far better than SVN.