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by gnaffle 4120 days ago
> That's laudable, but countless examples show that not everyone is that diligent.

Sure, then again I would guess that the ones who are not that diligent are not likely to apply those access restrictions that you mention (although the "one revision" advantage is something they would get "for free" with SVN).

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In any given larger organization there are people that have exert control over only parts of the whole. I could possibly argue to tighten down security on parts of a repository for some people within boundaries (like declare some folders as unreadable to some folks that don't need access to those) but I can't deny them all access since they need some of the content stored in the repo. With git that's currently all or nothing which exposes a flank that I'd prefer closed. In this particular case it's not a terrible issue, but for other folks with other data that can quite well be, so the tradeoffs may end up being in favor of SVN. I can imagine that that's one of the reasons I still see SVN deployed in corporate installations.