> That's something SVN or another centralized VCS would handle much more gracefully. Subversion handles this gracefully because you don't download all of the r

> That's something SVN or another centralized VCS would handle much more gracefully. Subversion handles this gracefully because you don't download all of the repository's history to your machine. It's a trade-off that you're talking about here. Most people are ok with losing the ability to check in 500MB files in order to gain the decentralization of having a full copy of the repo (and not needing to query the server just to view history).