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How is Git different from SVN?

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The differences between Git and SVN are one of the notable entries among the best Git interview questions. First of all, Git does not have adequate functionality for managing excessively large files or frequently fluctuating binary files. On the other hand, SVN can manage multiple projects in the same repository.

The second point of difference is in the fact that Git lacks support for commits across multiple branches or tags. On the contrary, SVN or Subversion supports the creation of folders irrespective of the location in the repository layout. Modifications in Gits are impossible. However, Subversion provides flexibility to committers for treating a tag as a branch and creating multiple revisions in a tag root. However, the distributed Git is better than the centralized SVN. 

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