Well, with Subversion you can sort of have different repositories in one repository... I think just about nobody had a checkout of the monorepository (it was to

Well, with Subversion you can sort of have different repositories in one repository... I think just about nobody had a checkout of the monorepository (it was too large), so changes (e.g. in public API) in several parts of the stack were not perfectly synchronized. There was one check-in per atomic repository for such things.