My favourite rant on this subject. https://www.bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ https://www.bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs

My favourite rant on this subject. https://www.bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ https://www.bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs... Now svn does have things I miss from the Mercurial world.. grep --all, fa --deleted, revsets, phases.. some could be implemented serverside in svn, but svn dev lost a lot of momentum post-DVCS (git esp). But DVCS has issues that aren't an issue in svn land. History consistency, simple reliable narrow/shallow, people can work on files independently without syncing. (and a significantly more complex dvcs process)