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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

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 18y ago
According to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374416 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374416 Git is particularly bad for large files, while good old SVN handles them Ok.
- blasdel 18y ago
  And CVS handles them far better than SVN.