"SVN [is] to Git what Windows 98 was to Windows XP."
"SVN is a slightly crappier version of Git."
to
"SVN is a version of Git in which every time you want to start a branch or merge it back, you have to sacrifise a young virgin to the source-control gods."
But I couldn't figure out if he got to "SVN is not a version of Git, just like Unix is not a version of Windows."
It's because the only version control system he's been exposed to before SVN is Git, so he understands version control in terms of Git. Every version control system is then like Git, plus some things and minus others. Hence these descriptions.
"SVN [is] to Git what Windows 98 was to Windows XP." "SVN is a slightly crappier version of Git."
to
"SVN is a version of Git in which every time you want to start a branch or merge it back, you have to sacrifise a young virgin to the source-control gods."
But I couldn't figure out if he got to "SVN is not a version of Git, just like Unix is not a version of Windows."