You find yourself in a realm where hackers don't branch and use svn with no experience of distributed source control. hg is so much your friend here. They will

You find yourself in a realm where hackers don't branch and use svn with no experience of distributed source control. hg is so much your friend here. They will actually probably get over the switch hump and use it. git that hump is much bigger and more arduous. Git is great, I like it. When you want to drag the team with you who aren't already sold, just go straight to hg every time. You're hacker, you can use either effectively and both are excellent tools.