I have a lot of scripts that sit on top of svn which I'm thinking of moving over to git. Even in the case of a single private repository git offers some advant

I have a lot of scripts that sit on top of svn which I'm thinking of moving over to git. Even in the case of a single private repository git offers some advantages. Git seems a lot faster compared to svn, especially when checking out a large tree. svn co can be glacial at times. Also with git you don't have .svn directories all over the place. This may not seem like a big deal until you want to store a directory structure created by an application that wants total control over the directories it creates.