Mental model to use SVN for example was quite simplified. No connection to the server no committing - no confusion about local vs remote. Branching only on the

Mental model to use SVN for example was quite simplified. No connection to the server no committing - no confusion about local vs remote. Branching only on the server, merging totally useless - no branches, no merging, no conflicts. Want to have your local development versioned - zipfile + date time. I would never go back to that, but from people complains some might want to.