Subversion didn’t get working merge support until years after git. Like CVS it basically required trunk-based development. Feature branches were not supported.

Subversion didn’t get working merge support until years after git. Like CVS it basically required trunk-based development. Feature branches were not supported. You needed a separate checkout for any work in progress. You could not checkpoint your work with a commit before updating to the latest head. Every update is a forced rebase. It sucked.