"svn: renames that aren't awful and keep history " No, it was "atomic commits and single revision number for a change" Remember CVS had non-atomic commits (pa

"svn: renames that aren't awful and keep history " No, it was "atomic commits and single revision number for a change" Remember CVS had non-atomic commits (part of the commit could succeed, part could fail), and per-file version numbers. Disclaimer: I worked a lot on SVN :)