It still is for some use cases. For example, you can give fine-granular access to sub directories of a repository. With git you must download the full repository. You can leave out ancient history with “shallow” clones, but there are no “sparse” clones (only checkouts).
What’s a “subversion”?
Subversion was the dominant VCS before git.
It still is for some use cases. For example, you can give fine-granular access to sub directories of a repository. With git you must download the full repository. You can leave out ancient history with “shallow” clones, but there are no “sparse” clones (only checkouts).