I've met people who have given up entirely on merging SVN branches. They just copy changes around manually. Coming from git, I thought their overly-cautious usa

I've met people who have given up entirely on merging SVN branches. They just copy changes around manually. Coming from git, I thought their overly-cautious usage of svn was ridiculous. My attitude changed when I ran into revprop issues merging my changes and struggled to discover why some commits seem to randomly be missing svn:mergeinfo. I only had so much time to deal with the issue, so eventually I gave up on fixing the problem and just generated patches to apply manually to the other branch. One thing I always worried about when experimenting with commands in SVN was that I'd permanently screw up the server. With git, I was comfortable in the knowledge that as long as I didn't push, at worst I would screw up my local repository. Even better, I could just make a copy of that local repository before trying something I wasn't sure about. I haven't had to do that in a very long time, but it was nice while I was learning. git is not the first version control I tried, but it's definitely the first that really made sense to me. Sure, there's a bunch of badly named commands to memorize, but the underlying concepts they represent are simple.