Comment by ryanbrunner
7 years ago
To be fair, git is the first VCS I've ever used where there was any real learning curve at all for normal, everyday use. I don't recall anyone ever really teaching me subversion, outside of maybe 5 minutes walking through the GUI. With git I feel like it probably took a few months of regular use before I felt comfortable with it.
That doesn't mean that I'd go back to subversion, but I don't think it's fair to say it's as easy to use.
I remember trying to do merges in SVN years ago, it was so hard my team agreed to just never make new branches. Git it so much easier to use, it seems hard to compare.
For branching / administration you're probably right. Typically though, subversion workflows would involve administrators doing most of the heavy lifting of branching / merging and everyone else working against those - for those users Subversion was absolutely easier.