I think "svn ci" sometimes being a little slow is a total non-issue, at least in my experience.
Well, if you haven't used git, you don't know what you're missing. "svn ci" seems fast. But try git and you will be amazed.
SVN supports branching just fine
No, it supports cheap copies. It has no idea what a branch is. As far as svn is concerned it's a directory. (You can even "svn copy" a single file. People do this, and it makes the nightmare called merging even more of a nightmare. Araaggghhh!)
Well, if you haven't used git, you don't know what you're missing. "svn ci" seems fast. But try git and you will be amazed.
SVN supports branching just fine
No, it supports cheap copies. It has no idea what a branch is. As far as svn is concerned it's a directory. (You can even "svn copy" a single file. People do this, and it makes the nightmare called merging even more of a nightmare. Araaggghhh!)