Yup this is exactly it. For developers fluent in git, it is a very real part of their development cycle (branching, rebasing, etc). What I've seen of most SVN (

Yup this is exactly it. For developers fluent in git, it is a very real part of their development cycle (branching, rebasing, etc). What I've seen of most SVN (and going back to CVS) is that their SCM is more or less just an archiving tool. A place after you've done all your hard work you use it as a fancy rsync tool to back it up. I don't see a lot of SVN users making svn the same part of their workflow the way git devs do. Maybe it's just the developers I work with though.