git's performance increase came around at the right time, too. Code bases were becoming bigger and bigger, and Agile's popularity preached a lot of branching. SVN branches were a full copy, making things way worse.
Yeah that had occurred to me. But I'd used TFS (which didn't have light-weight branches) with Agile-like development practices and it wasn't that big a deal. Maybe if the codebase was 10 or 20 times bigger it would've been.
