I have exactly the same experience. After 3 years working with svn I still hard problems reasoning about the data model and what for example a merge would do, w

I have exactly the same experience. After 3 years working with svn I still hard problems reasoning about the data model and what for example a merge would do, while after just 2 months I understood git way better than I ever had done svn. Most of his list could easily be changed to be about svn instead. svn has a bad data model, svn has incomplete and poorly written man pages, in svn you need to run many commands to do simple things, svn has illogical command line parameters, ...