> That's true that there was no command "svn branch", there was only the command "svn copy". It's true that command could have been better named, like many Git

> That's true that there was no command "svn branch", there was only the command "svn copy". It's true that command could have been better named, like many Git commands could have been better named. It was not a naming issue. It was a bona fide lack of support for a basic feature. The manual itself states quite clearly that in SVN land you create a branch by copying around the entire working directory within your repository. SVN's manual is quite clear on how SVN actually tracks the state of a file system, and not the state of a source code tree. By copying the working directory around the repository you're creating new revisions of your file system. That' it. Just because you can diff two directories it does not mean copying a directory around in a file system is a branch. And nor is it a tag.