On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2:27 PM sean <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote: > > On 2024-01-13 16:11, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > There are not many compelling reasons > > to use Subversion anymore, except the ability to check out only > > subdirectories from a branch and the insistence that a single central > > repository is the only source of truth. > > The ability to `svn lock` files is very useful if your repo has a lot of > non-mergeable files, like say MS Office documents.
I have never once found that feature to be useful since I first used Subversion back around 2001. Mind you, I'd treat Word documents as binaries objects and not consider them suitable for incremental changes in a source control system.