It seems to me that whenever I try to do something in SVN, something messes up:

• Something as simple as renaming a directory would often cause an error of some sort when checking in the commit.

• Reverting changes to files, which was probably exactly what SVN was designed for, is incredibly error prone. Checking in a previous version is bound to blow up with some inconsistency error, and a series of unintuitive steps are required to correctly do it.

• Problems occur often and are usually extremely frustrating to fix. Fixing SVN problems for me involves countless attempts to commit a version of the code, getting an error, deleting the project, checking in the project, and repeat.

• It should be easy for multiple people to work on the project and commit changes. It is not. When you try to commit a file after someone else committed the same file, SVN is guaranteed to blow up.

• I haven't even mentioned branching and merging. No surprises here, merging is very prone to errors and the errors are difficult to correct.

/rant

What version control software best minimizes my frustrations?