"But then I would just resort to using something like quilt to manage patches onto of SVN, which is ridiculous." This is exactly the way Mercurial patch queues

"But then I would just resort to using something like quilt to manage patches onto of SVN, which is ridiculous." This is exactly the way Mercurial patch queues work: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension