On the contrary, maybe my environment is such that the svn server is on the local network and I actually feel uncomfortable with people running around with thei

On the contrary, maybe my environment is such that the svn server is on the local network and I actually feel uncomfortable with people running around with their laptops and all of my VCS history on them. Git fails hard. Um. git-svn and a usb key neatly sidestep that for anyone who wants to take your IP. If someone can read your IP, they can pretty much extract it. Sorry. It's also worth noting that hg is better at the immutable history idea, so if that's a criteria for adopting, hg should be looked at.