You also seem to be intentionally closed-minded, for the purpose of gaining karma on social news sites. I think that's sad, but I realize that it's your loss, not mine.
I care not a jot about karma. What I do care about is ill informed people spouting rubbish.
You stated that anyone using subversion must not understand revision control. Which is an idiotic comment.
I detest this pompous high and mighty tools based attitude. Does anyone not using lisp not understand programming? Anyone not using ruby on rails not understand how to build webapps?
I'm actually very open minded. When I have problems with subversion, I'll likely try git if it fits my use case at the time. At the moment, it doesn't.
You stated that anyone using subversion must not understand revision control. Which is an idiotic comment.
But you said above that you don't want to understand version control; you said you just want to use it. This does not disprove my statement.
Why can't you just "svn update Foo" ? Then you don't have to deal with the changes to Bar :/ I don't really see what the issue is. Are you often working on exactly the same files as other developers, and not co-ordinating what you're doing?
>> "Anyway, I am glad you like svn. But it is probably due to some reason other than svn's technical merits..."
I like it, because it solves my use case perfectly. I'm not quite sure you understand that.
I'm not one of these people that love technical solutions for the sake of being technical.