One thing I like about SVN that, at least in the past, was not easy with Git is checking out sub directories.
One thing I do is check out svn+ssh://svn/home/svn/configs/server/etc and copy the .svn file over to /etc so that I can check in changes from the actual directory on my servers at home. I never found a good way to do that on Git. But, admittedly, I haven’t looked in a couple years.
No. It is not a requirement
I tried to name them what we actually call them when we refer to them.
Yeah. SVN’s ability to do that is not experimental. I’m hoping that they make that feature much easier