> It was really hard to keep reading after this line. It's like saying painting your bedroom red will make you better at sex. I had the experience that having

> It was really hard to keep reading after this line. It's like saying painting your bedroom red will make you better at sex. I had the experience that having to switch back to SVN made my workflow significantly worse, lowering my productivity a tiny bit and thereby making me a slightly worse programmer overall. The importance and convenience of cheap local branches is nothing that will be known to someone who hasn't used them. If you are used to them, using a system without them makes you feel you are doing the job that the tool should do.