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by tpoacher 296 days ago
Not pretending to be an expert in either system's internals, but I feel like svn would be a much better fit than git for this.

I find svn to be wonderful. There seems to be a real phobia against it which I've never understood and it's such a shame.

Especially when one of the biggest arguments "against" it is that "it's centralised" (when in fact using it in a decentralised manner is trivial), and ironically most people these days just use git as an interface to github (rather than the other way round), effectively using it in centralised manner.

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We'd probably see more SVN adoption if we had better ways to map it back and forth to a high quality Git repo. Even the minimal work I did writing [1] taught me the data models diverge in pretty fundamental ways. Can't blame people for being conservative around something at bedrock as their version control.

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/reposurgeon/