[zwischenzug]

We did the same and plenty were _unhappy_. In the end git took over.

There were plenty of things I didn't like about SVN (separate folders per branch? yuk), having used CVS, and didn't find it 'trivial' to pick up.

[aidenn0]

Really, it's hard to handle branching worse than CVS does, and if SVN doesn't do a stellar job either, I don't see it as a barrier to switching.