Subversion notes

We recently converted from cvs to Subversion and overall I like it much better than cvs but:

• I wish cvs2svn converted .cvsignore files to svn:ignore properties.
  
• I wish it handled tags and branches natively instead of using the copy method. Tags and branches are core parts of version control and I think something is lost by implementing them non-natively.
• I hope svn:externals will be able to point to a specific file soon.
• I wish update and status didn't print so much extra info about the externals. For status I have to run svn status --ignore-externals --show-updates %* | grep -v "^[XI]" | grep -v "^Status against revision" just to get what I want.