There are a few reasons why you might want to start out with SVN rather than git: * It's simpler (though admittedly the complex and confusing features of git r

There are a few reasons why you might want to start out with SVN rather than git: * It's simpler (though admittedly the complex and confusing features of git really only become relevant when there are multiple developers). * If you're going to work for corporate clients with their own repositories, chances are very high it's going to be SVN (it's possible to use both via the git-svn tool, but that adds more complexity) That being said, git does have a number of very nice features that are useful to lone developers as well.