[hinkley]

The feature I missed about Subversion was, if you could figure out how to treat your code like a proper tree, individual teams would check out one, maybe two directories, and only the leads and operational people ever had the whole thing.

I never entirely understood what it was in subversion's internals that prevented it from being used as a DCVS. We could figure out version numbers with branches and multiple repos. If not then, certainly now.

There's a space between subversion and Git that could be occupied with something that sheds the worst behaviors of each and makes something better.

[enneff]

Revisions in Subversion are identified by a monotonically increasing number. How can you distribute that?

[hinkley]

Versions are a tree structure. The implementation may have required the next revision number to be n + 1, but the data structure does not necessarily have to do that. If myself and someone else push commits, they have to be rebased and renumbered anyway, right?