Thread: Github vs SVN
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Originally Posted by Jared341 View Post
Literally the only advantage of SVN (IMO) is that it is somewhat simpler to explain and teach to a student.

Git is better in every other way, and is not significantly more complicated to use as long as you stick to a reasonable workflow.
I would probably disagree that that is the only reason. SVN is much better for using a centralized workflow. There's a reason it's still popular in commercial development. It also handles versioning much better (git tags are much worse)
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