Subversion had it's quirks initially. It didn't work on NFS for instance, because the default backend was Berkeley DB, or some version of it. Looking back Subv

Subversion had it's quirks initially. It didn't work on NFS for instance, because the default backend was Berkeley DB, or some version of it. Looking back Subversion was a bit of a weird project. It didn't re-evaluate what was wrong with CVS. It was more a "Let's try that again, but fix a few obvious problems". Subversion didn't really contribute with that much overall. We could do branches more simply, but most of us just replaced the cvs command with svn and continued to work as before.