sorry but that is a very long time. Branching is something I do dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day (creating, checking out, deleting, etc).

svn doesn't fit the sane modern workflow and everything it does can be done by git in a less painful manner. I think the only use case I can think of for svn is a very binary heavy repo that needs global locking.

I worked in an environment with a significantly larger repository, and svn switches were a constant source of frustration.