while in a git repo the information about branches is readily available
locally, this isn't the case for svn: to figure out what other branches are
available you need to connect to the remote repository.
Also: while the dir structure trunk/tags/branches is well established in
svn, it is by no
I've been using TortoiseGit much more lately, and I notice that many of its
dialogs show the current branch - and even allow easy browsing of other
branches. Even just right-clicking on the folder will show 'Git Commit ->
branchName'. When I swap back to my TortoiseSVN projects, I miss not
