"accepted as a deficiency" and "have found subversions merging support to be good enough" are good indicators that you are optimizing for easy-to-train rather t

"accepted as a deficiency" and "have found subversions merging support to be good enough" are good indicators that you are optimizing for easy-to-train rather than the-best-system. That's fine. In your case, you've probably made the right choice. The author is explaining how this one feature that is accepted as a deficiency by svn is handled properly by git and he barely ever hears about it. He never said this is the only reason to switch to git. He does however think this one feature is representative of git's superiority.