I have some plans now to support this scenario by having Ankh automatically revert the file before a rename if its status is Added (as long as it doesn’t have copy history, a revert in this case would be bad…), and then re-adding it after the rename is completed.

Jeff: the problem with deleting and readding a web reference is most likely a Subversion limitation. Once the reference is deleted, the WC will have a pending delete for that file. Until that delete is committed or reverted, any attempt to add a file with the same name will fail.

#1) No auto merging of branches. Supposedly this will be fixed in v1.5 so this issue will go away.

#2) Speed. I make video games and we need to version control assets (textures, 3d models, animations). Toward the end of our project it became painfully clear that Subversion is not up to that task. I have to assume the people creating it are managing typical software projects of at most a few hundred or a thousand source files. Once you get into multi GIGS of game assets though, of which gigs are updated daily it bogs down so bad that it became clear switching to Perforce, even at $700 per seat, was far cheaper than wasting 1-2 hours a day per person waiting for Subversion.

Clearly this will only effect teams that manage assets with their asset management system. I can only hope at some point the subversion team will make speed a bigger priority.