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well, svn is a CLI tool, and as such, ugly ;-) but it is not buggy, IMHO,
You are correct in that SVN is not inherently buggy, but the anonsvn server at KDE e.V. is quite slow and its connection is unstable. It can be a real nightmare to check out the entire Trinity source from that server.
We have had plans for a while now to migrate the source from the KDE e.V. SVN server to our own GIT server immediately following the 3.5.13 release. Hopefully that will not only encourage more developers to get involved, but also fix the anonymous checkout that has been a problem ever since this project began.
Tim