Do you suppose there's a sort of reverse Conway's Law for version control? Compared to most DVCSs, SVN maked merging branches expensive and required more decisi

Do you suppose there's a sort of reverse Conway's Law for version control? Compared to most DVCSs, SVN maked merging branches expensive and required more decisions about the code to be made ahead of time. Gridlock happens, and branches can languish if they haven't been planned properly and agreed to from the outset. Sounds a bit like some of the things that have been said about Django's roadmap and central planning, no? (And the documentation support is excellent as well, for both Django and SVN.)