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Performance would be nightmarish. Git is super elegant and great, but not very performant. Imagine having to deltify a terabyte of data? Good luck with that!


wasn't it because he needed better performance one of the reasons Torvalds created git? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)


Although git usually has faster performance than most other VCS, that doesn't mean it can easily handle terabyte disk image files. :P





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