It is great, but I actually think it's a little unfair. CVS was better than directories with date suffixes, and SVN was better than CVS. Git sounds better tha

It is great, but I actually think it's a little unfair. CVS was better than directories with date suffixes, and SVN was better than CVS. Git sounds better than SVN. But to me, SVN isn't one of those technologies that I'll look back on and despise. Sometimes you look back on a technology and wish it had never existed (the original EJB seems to inspire this in some people), sometimes you look back on it and see deep flaws but still have respect for it as a first crack at a problem (some people look on the original Struts framework this way), and some you look back on fondly even if you no longer personally use it (a lot of ruby/python folks seem to look back on perl this way). To torture the analogy, I'd say SVN is a moderately effective antibiotic that has been replaced with a more effective one that has fewer side effects. But a leech? Come on, it was a good technology.