I don't think I've ever stored a binary file in my source-code control system. (Hint: your VCS is not your backup server.) Backup is not the point. The point i

I don't think I've ever stored a binary file in my source-code control system. (Hint: your VCS is not your backup server.) Backup is not the point. The point is that you should be able to get onto a new machine, and execute your build process, and it should work. If some of the application files are missing, it wont. I have a favicon.ico in some of my repositories. It seems that all you're really saying is that your applications aren't media-intensive (binary files limited to an icon), and you don't want to think about ones that are.