Thinking about this further, SVN forces history to be a linear history of commits, which is easy to reason about. DVCS have a DAG of commits, which can get arb

Thinking about this further, SVN forces history to be a linear history of commits, which is easy to reason about. DVCS have a DAG of commits, which can get arbitrarily complicated and difficult to reason about. Rebase-based workflow results in a linear history of commits, which is easy to reason about. Merge-based workflow results in an arbitrarily complicated DAG of commits which is difficult to reason about. That's all there is to it.