[tpoacher]

I have used svn in a decentralised manner, pretty much as the person above me describes, for years. It's super simple to do. You create a local repo, populate it from "origin", and when you want to commit your local changes, you make a "foreign merge" request from "origin".

Your argument that this cant be done in svn because "there's a central repo" could have been translated in "git" as: "yeah you cant work on your machine without internet because you wont be able to push on github"