Git or Subversion for binary files

Question

We need to store binary files (mostly MS Word documents, ranging from a couple of KB to a couple of MB in size) in a version control repository with over 100 \"projects\". C

Answer 1

• Subversion attempts to automatically detect binary files (see SVN FAQ). If this fails, you have to designate them yourself (you also can't change SVN's detection method).

• Git does the same, and you can specify which files to automatically treat as binaries by including a .gitattributes file in your source repository.

• Here is a comparison of Git and SVN's binary file handling.

• Here is what some other Stack Overflow members have been doing with Git and binary files.

Hope this helps!