Anecdotally, this is fairly common. I have known people that did not realize they had fairly bad back pain until they went to the doctor for something else and had it treated.

Sometimes, it is only in absence of something that we really notice it, especially if it is truly chronic. I suspect most people have gone somewhere with a fairly loud background noise. At first they may notice it, but after being there for a while they may forget about it and may even forget it was ever there. But they will notice and realize how annoying it was if that noise ever stops.

I type 'svn commit' 'svn update', it works. quickly.

For me, it's like suggesting I change from using 'cd' to change directory, to using 'awesome-cd' to change directory :/

What I can say is that I didn't realize how painful Java was for me until I started learning Python. That may be a closer analogy, though still not perfect.

Sometimes when I'm developing, and ready to commit something I notice I've made a few unrelated changes/bugfixes. I could just commit the whole thing at once, but that makes merging a hassle because I probably want to merge those bugfixes to trunk much sooner than any code which implements a new feature. So, I would need some way to commit only certain diff chunks from each file.

I understand from "http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/interactive-adding that git can do that. So far it hasn't been incentive enough to switch, but it's one example of the pain of subversion.

Until I switched to git. Only then did I realize how much pain I was suffering by avoiding branches. Now I use branching all the time.

I guess it's because I had nothing to compare to. I didn't know that branches can be done well.

See what happened with _why? He nuked everything, but none of it really went away. With CVCS, the community would have lost everything.