Not a fair comparison. 1. You're comparing a branching workflow in Git to a branchless workflow in SVN. The branchless workflow in Git eliminates step 1 and 3.

Not a fair comparison. 1. You're comparing a branching workflow in Git to a branchless workflow in SVN. The branchless workflow in Git eliminates step 1 and 3. 2. You can remove step 5 by doing `git commit -a` in step 6. Sure, you will have to `git add` new files, but you need to do the same in `svn add`, which your list for SVN conveniently ignores.