The core critical point that I have about subversion is that you'll likely ruin your perfectly working code by the having to "svn up" before you can "svn ci".

The core critical point that I have about subversion is that you'll likely ruin your perfectly working code by the having to "svn up" before you can "svn ci". In git it's the other way round, you can go back to your working version and start over with fixing a conflict.