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It seems pretty obvious to me that subversion's program model is way closer to the naive user model than git's is.

You assert this without saying why, except to say Eric Sink said it first. You could at least provide a link to his explanation, I couldn't find the magic Google incantation to find it myself.

He doesn't need to do that at all - for example, if he's running a windows machine, he can just install TortoiseSVN and set up repositories on his local machine. Dead simple.

My bad, I misused the word server. I meant that best case you're still setting up the repository in one folder and then doing all your work in another. On the premise that managing and understanding why you're managing two places is harder than just working in one, git is simpler. I didn't just make that up, that's how the systems work.