I have the (fairly unique, I suspect) perspective of someone who never had to extensively use SVN until recently (before git came around there was lots of Perfo

I have the (fairly unique, I suspect) perspective of someone who never had to extensively use SVN until recently (before git came around there was lots of Perforce and manually managing patches/tarballs). SVN is unbelievably more difficult. The entire conceptual process of merging/rebasing/reintegrating is so much more difficult in SVN than git that I really cannot understand how people cope. Branches in SVN are such a pain in the ass that feature branching becomes a nightmare barely even worth doing. I get migraines trying to keep straight what things in SVN make changes on the server and what things make changes locally only that I can sit on for a while. Being centralized seems to raise the stakes of just about every operation, whereas with git I can take it slow, get everything right, and not involve other people until I decide it is the right time to do so. A month-long stint of working with another team that uses SVN for some incomprehensible reason left me seriously considering seeing a doctor about some blood pressure medicine. I swear to the gods I would rather use quilt.