Re: [development] FAQ: Why is Drupal still using CVS when X is a much better choice?

Gordon Heydon wrote:

If it needs to be a centralize RCS, the I hope to SVN mainly because the git connectivity is so good, and it really works like just another git repository. How ever because SVN doesn't know how to tag or branch I don't think that the upstream use of branches will work that well.

This is my concern with SVN. Its idea of tagging and branching is naive and I find it confusing and also intensive when I end up checking out all the tags unintentionally. It seems like it would be difficult to translate our current tagging system to SVN and I am concerned that the amount of work to do so would be wasted effort. IMO, we have a lot more important problems to solve than this.