Why the hell would you want to version and branch and merge one huge blob? The point of this is that it's versioned just like it was a straightforward filesyste

Why the hell would you want to version and branch and merge one huge blob? The point of this is that it's versioned just like it was a straightforward filesystem mount. You can't take forked vmware snapshots and merge them back into one another, or track changes from their shared parent, or anything less primitive than vanilla snapshots.