That is still not a reason not to use git on your personal machine. These use cases are exactly what git-svn was made for.<p>If you are comfortable with SVN then by all means use it but if you haven't at least tried Git you are missing out on some really powerful tools and workflow possibilities.<p>If you have a lot of binary files then maybe subversion might be a better fit for you. But even then the local directory size can be smaller with Git.