Comment by brucehoult

All files in git are binary files.

All deltas between versions are binary diffs.

Git has always handled large (including large binary) files just fine.

What it doesn't like is files where a conceptually minor change changes the entire file, for example compressed or encrypted files.

The only somewhat valid complaint is that if someone once committed a large file and then it was later deleted (maybe minutes later, maybe years later) then it is in the repo and in everyone's checkouts forever. Which applies equally to small and to large files, but large ones have more impact.

That's the whole point of a version control system. To preserve the history, allowing earlier versions to be recreated.

The better solution would be to have better review of changes pushed to the master repo, including having unreviewed changes in separate, potentially sacrificial, repos until approved.