> You are probably thinking of branches and tags, No, I was referring to forking projects, in the sense that Git allows for creating brand new and independent

> You are probably thinking of branches and tags, No, I was referring to forking projects, in the sense that Git allows for creating brand new and independent repositories that clone the version history up to a point in time and enable to add the origin Git repository as a remote repository. SVN also does not support branching or tagging, as it actually supports only copying directories around a file system.