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Number 10 is a total apples-to-oranges comparison. For an apples-to-apples comparison, the question is, do you want to give your contributors write access to your master repo? (and deal with the consequences)

If contributors have write access, then Git is almost as easy. There's just one more command ("git push") compared to SVN.

If contributors don't have write access, then there's no easy way to do this with SVN. Most places that I've seen will either have users submit .patch files via email, or put their changes in SVN branches (ugh). Or, they convince themselves that they'd rather just give contributors write access. Either way, Git has many handy ways to solve this problem (Github pull requests are just one of those ways), and it definitely wins on this front.




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