How do I manage large art assets appropriately in DVCS?

Question

Is there any good way to handle large assets (i.e. 1000\'s of images, flash movies etc.) with a DVCS tool such as hg and git. As I see it, to clone repositories tha

Answer 1

Thoughts, no experience: I would indeed seperate code from data. Assuming that there is a set of images that belongs to the application, I would just keep that on a centralized server. In the code, I would then arrange (through explicit coding) that the application can integrate both local or remote assets. People contributing can then put new images in their local store at first, integrating it with some kind of (explicit) upload procedure into the central store when required and approved.