For the thankfully very short period that I ever used SVN, I remember it being massively painful if the network was down. The local processes would just hang an

For the thankfully very short period that I ever used SVN, I remember it being massively painful if the network was down. The local processes would just hang and then your entire workspace was pretty much unusable. Couple this with a single-core 32bit machine and less than 1G RAM and you're pretty much stuffed for any sort of productivity.