Yes, SVN can handle renames. And maintain history across renames. Btw, SVN supports partial checkouts (git doesn't). Which I use regularly on a gigabyte repo.

Yes, SVN can handle renames. And maintain history across renames. Btw, SVN supports partial checkouts (git doesn't). Which I use regularly on a gigabyte repo. I use git regularly for all my hobby projects (mainly because 'git init' seems way simpler than the equivalent svn command), and I might even start a company off on git, but I'll never claim that SVN is obviously a bad way to do things.