[flukus]

> As in: In the subversion days, many people commited only few times a day, sometimes not for several days.

This was often the source of merge hell. Half of what makes git merges easier is the smaller commits that it encourages.

[data_hope]

But kind of it was also the tooling. Most svn projects I worked on were trunk-based and thus integrated much tighter than git feature-branch based code. However, the times I merged subversion branches, I kind of was sure that subversion lost some changes.