This is how I've structured our use at the place I'm at. TortoiseGit is better than svn to me. Submodules are the key though in our situation these are best whe

This is how I've structured our use at the place I'm at. TortoiseGit is better than svn to me. Submodules are the key though in our situation these are best when they can exist in the same directory structure. We create a master repo with all the design assets, statement of work, and any other useful files for the end product. Then we have a client repo as it were of the files we serve in the wamp www directory. Because this is physically different, submodules make little sense. For the WPF builds that all live together in the same directory structure, submodules are perfect. My only hiccup is remembering to commit the subs via the master but that's a habit I need to change. The files in the wamp repo are deployed to client computers using git pull with a read only ssh key so people aren't committing from them. Our wamp files are primarily text either in straight html or usually PHP. We take care not to commit user editable sections so we don't overwrite what a customer ultimately changes. This is kind of a hand rolled version of the now many git deployment tools out there and it works rather well. I know this isn't gaming nor are our source files that large but the psds can be astronomical very quickly on just simple web pages. I could only imagine what goes into "next gen games". GIT is still useful for binary deltas but you definitely have to carefully plan how you partition things in repositories. If I can do this, really almost anyone can. Kiln brought excellent binary support to Hg so there's really no need to stick to svn. There may be areas where its still useful but the distributed nature of dvcs is just too compelling when your team is well... distributed. I do hear great things about perforce too and I hope any company uses the better vcs not because they think the users can't cope with anything new, but there is extreme benefit for doing so. Again, if I could help our team move into Git with very little hand holding, you would probably be surprised how quickly people adapted. Especially if something like TortoiseGit isn't that much different than TortoiseSvn or TortoiseHg for that matter.