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That's a ridiculous claim. Can you really not think of a single situation in which it makes sense to keep track of big pieces of data alongside (or even instead

That's a ridiculous claim. Can you really not think of a single situation in which it makes sense to keep track of big pieces of data alongside (or even instead of) source code? The fact that many VCS don't handle large binary data nicely doesn't mean there's never a good reason to do so.

otp209 3y ago
> Can you really not think of a single situation It doesn't even matter if they can think of one; assuming your own use cases for software are everyone's is proceeding from false premises and is the sort of thing that leads to (and necessitates) "hacky workarounds" and eventually the adoption of better software we should've had in the first place. Assume nothing about user's use cases. A VCS should not be imposing arbitrary limitations on the files it's indexing. It's like the old-school filesystems we (surprise, surprise) deprecated.