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4/5 are problems unrelated to SVN. Heck, Git can burn you on all of those.

1/5 is about using svnserve instead of file:// and network mounts, and doesn't need to be a rant, just a don't use file:// protocol for shared repositories.

I wish HN had downvotes for an article like this.

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Thanks for the sophisticated and helpful response. I'll obviously implement many of the suggestions you made to improve my article writing.

> It's neither reliable nor safe, nor can you easily administrate it.

While you're at it, the word you wanted was 'administer'.

It's more of a "how to fail at version control", yes - but with a Subversion slant (along the lines of "it can work fine, but the default is bad").

I don't see how that makes this a particularly bad article, though.

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