It's worth having distributed version control just so you can work on your own with your own branches and crap and only bother others when you're ready to share. And so you can work seamlessly when offline.
SVN feels like working in someone else's kitchen while several other people are trying to cook in it, too. It's hell. I prefer that we each have our own kitchen and bring our dishes to the table when they're ready.
I've also repeatedly found git a suitable (if not great—if they'd put all their effort behind libgit2 and make that the official implementation, that'd help a ton) tool to form the foundation of larger systems. It's a damn fine toolbox for attacking certain problems. SVN wouldn't have been much help in any of those situations.
SVN feels like working in someone else's kitchen while several other people are trying to cook in it, too. It's hell. I prefer that we each have our own kitchen and bring our dishes to the table when they're ready.
I've also repeatedly found git a suitable (if not great—if they'd put all their effort behind libgit2 and make that the official implementation, that'd help a ton) tool to form the foundation of larger systems. It's a damn fine toolbox for attacking certain problems. SVN wouldn't have been much help in any of those situations.