[nknighthb]

1) Why are you taking a be-careful-don't-blame-me passage from a random article written by some guy as gospel?

2) All version control systems are vulnerable to data loss if you mess around with them in unusual ways. Would you say svn was fundamentally broken if somebody told you to take a backup before you screwed around with the repo?

[mikeash]

1) It's the sort of thing I've heard many times from many people over the years.

2) The difference is that svn does not build this functionality into the main command line tool, and there is no culture of doing terrible things with svnadmin to edit svn repositories the way there is of doing terrible things with git to rewrite git history.

[nknighthb]

I can't agree that UI quibbles and your perception of the "culture" (a perception I don't share at all) are "fundamental flaws" in git.