One of my few nits about Subversion is that it’s a pain to track merge points, as dovetailing changes from a release branch to the trunk requires recording (or digging for) the revision of each point you’ve merged. Subversion 1.5 will support merge tracking, which solves the problem for most common uses.

Or, if you think Subversion users are retards, you could always just switch to Git (Linus does have a point, but he’s being a bit of a git about it himself).