I tend to gravitate towards its competitor Me too - which is one paths that led me to Bazaar. Like your experience with Mercurial, Bazaar has done the trick on

I tend to gravitate towards its competitor Me too - which is one paths that led me to Bazaar. Like your experience with Mercurial, Bazaar has done the trick on the smallish (<10) teams I've used it with, and the bzr-svn plug-in means you can still go out to play with your SVN using friends...