This just happened at work like 2 weeks ago. Someone checked in a large (4g) binary file into SVN repo and it crashed the whole system. Everyone at the company

This just happened at work like 2 weeks ago. Someone checked in a large (4g) binary file into SVN repo and it crashed the whole system. Everyone at the company was blocked for half a day before they got it fixed (temporarily to unblock everyone). But it took another 2 days and a lot of heated debates between the release manager and devops before everything went back to normal. There were talks about moving to git before the incident, but this really pushed management to finally pull the trigger. 2 lessons here: 1. SVN is bad at large binary files; 2) centralized source control's one way of doing things also gives you one way of disaster recovery.