There are so many comments, probably nobody will read this. But I have to say it any way. The author seems to know a lot about many different things. But still

There are so many comments, probably nobody will read this. But I have to say it any way. The author seems to know a lot about many different things. But still it feels like he falls into the same trap as most people: Things never really just work. Life is always way more complicated than we would assume at first. SVN does not make most people happy, because it is more simple. If it is more simple there are a lot of things it can't do. Some people do something fast and simple for you and you think it works. But a week later a coworker needs to spend half the week to make it actually work. And even 10 years later you spend a significant amount of work to make it do things it doesn't do by itself. Learning a complex tool to do a complex task is really getting you closer. Because after you have spent the time learning it you can spend the same short time periods to achieve a much wider range of tasks, solve much wider sets of problems with each solution, etc.