2 and 3 are easily done in SVN also. 2 is basically merging your changes in personal branch to the personal branch of another user. 3. Well your branch in SVN i

2 and 3 are easily done in SVN also. 2 is basically merging your changes in personal branch to the personal branch of another user. 3. Well your branch in SVN is your domain, do what you want. I think the main advantage is really for larger groups. Having 3000 branches in the linux repo would be unmanageable. Also, private branches are something SVN can't do to my knowledge. If I want to hack on a git repo without anyone knowing, it's easy. But there's many advantages to GIT/Mercurial over SVN/* aside from the "everyone has a repo". I love git but currently use SVN due to legacy and keyword expansion at work and it's not that bad.