&gt; Except for the case of storing a lot of binary files, when Subversion repositories could be significantly smaller than Git ones (because Subversion’s xdelta delta compression algorithm works both for binary and text files).<p>Does this still hold true now that GitHub handles large binary files? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1986-announcing-git-large-file-storage-lfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1986-announcing-git-large-file-stora...</a>