Branching in Subversion is easy, it's the merging part that's difficult. That's because branches in Subversion are just copied folders that it tries to keep in

Branching in Subversion is easy, it's the merging part that's difficult. That's because branches in Subversion are just copied folders that it tries to keep in sync with some magic "glued on" metadata attributes. (At least they were the last time I checked.) In Git, branches are an inherent part of the repository graph structure. So the relationships of branches and merges are very low level and stable and work quite reliably in all situations. Because of this I trust Git more for branching/merging.