If you wanted to use git in this situation, rather than svn, I'd recommend using git-annex (http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://git-annex.branchable.com/).

If you wanted to use git in this situation, rather than svn, I'd recommend using git-annex (http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://git-annex.branchable.com/). It avoids those binaries bloating the history while still letting branches "contain" specific versions of them. You can set up a centralized annex that is eg, a bup repository (or a rsync server, or use S3) and git-annex pulls down the binaries from there on request.