Use the existing svn/cvs workflow with the trivial changes for git/mercurial. Central repo, push when you're done to master. Branches are all but unusable on cv

Use the existing svn/cvs workflow with the trivial changes for git/mercurial. Central repo, push when you're done to master. Branches are all but unusable on cvs/svn anyway - if you do use them, feel the win and laugh with glee. When everyone is on top of that basic workflo then you do something incrementally better. Really it's day 2, really. I've seen this more than once now. The fight to get to that point where the changeover happens is getting easier but I'm sure it still sucks.