[TorKlingberg]

I used svn only a few years ago and don't remember branching taking very long. Maybe it was csv that had to copy the all files.

I do remember merges being horrible in svn. Just branching off trunk, doing some work and merging back is fine, but if you try to merge from trunk to your branch to "catch up" you're in for some pain when you later want to merge to trunk.

Also svn treats adding and deleting file as different from just editing, more so than git does.

[zie]

SVN branching as I remember it requires a round-trip to the server, so that could be why it took so long for some people, if their server was far away.