Oh, no doubt Subversion has its downsides and Mercurial is really good at what it does. I was just musing through my own tradeoffs. It is a very narrow point bu

Oh, no doubt Subversion has its downsides and Mercurial is really good at what it does. I was just musing through my own tradeoffs. It is a very narrow point but one that I hope is in the spirit of the article. Partial repo checkouts, SVN externals are the two areas where I feel I lost something when "upgrading" to Git. So yes, I quite agree, there are definitely tradeoffs.