title: Is git worth for managing many files bigger than 500MB
body: <p>I would put under version control a big amount of data, i.e. a directory structure (with depth&lt;=5) with hundreds files with size about 500Mb).</p>
  
  <p>The things I need is a system that help me:
   - to detect if an files has been changed
   - to detect if files were added/removed
   - to clone the entire repository in another location
   - to store a "checkpoint" and restore it later</p>
  
  <p>I don't need sha1 for change detect, something faster is acceptable.</p>
  
  <p>Is git worth for this? There is a better alternative?</p>