DVCS vs. Subversion brittleness (was Re: Moving to D)

[Ulrik Mikaelsson]

2011/2/9 Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail>:
>
> It's unlikely you will see converted repositories with a lot of changing
> blob data. DVCS, at the least in the way they work currently, simply kill
> this workflow/organization-pattern.
> I very much suspect this issue will become more important as time goes on -
> a lot of people are still new to DVCS and they still don't realize the full
> implications of that architecture with regards to repo size. Any file you
> commit will add to the repository size *FOREVER*. I'm pretty sure we haven't
> heard the last word on the VCS battle, in that in a few years time people
> are *again* talking about and switching to another VCS :( . Mark these
> words. (The only way this is not going to happen is if Git or Mercurial are
> able to address this issue in a satisfactory way, which I'm not sure is
> possible or easy)
>

You don't happen to know about any projects of this kind in any other
VCS that can be practically tested, do you?

Besides, AFAIU this discussion was originally regarding to the D
language components, I.E. DMD, druntime and Phobos. Not a lot of
binaries here.