Making an svn branch and scrapping it, indeed never was a big deal. Making an svn branch and merging it, now that was a huge issue. "svn merge" sucked compared

Making an svn branch and scrapping it, indeed never was a big deal. Making an svn branch and merging it, now that was a huge issue. "svn merge" sucked compared to "git merge". For the project I was managing back in 2007 I started using git-svn, because importing Subversion commits into git, using "git merge", and then exporting commits back to the subversion server, was faster and worked better than "svn merge" did (back in 2007).