Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> writes: > As someone used to Subversion's usually sequential revision numbers, > that bugs me aesthetically, but it works fine.
I think that's the crux of it. Also part of the reason to split up the repos is to make access control easier, and it looks bad if Alice (who should have access to project 1 but not project 2) can see Bob's old commit metadata to project 2, even if she can't see the commit bodies after the split.