Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

I have several projects that at most 4 to 5 people are going to work
on. At any particular time, there are are at most 2 or 3 people
working on a same project. It seems that git outperform svn for large
scale projects.

I have read a few webpages on the comparison between svn and git. What
is clear to me is how easy svn is compare with git in command line
mode? It seems that the svn commands are actually longer than git.

http://markmcb.com/2008/10/18/3-reasons-to-switch-to-git-from-subversion/

Does svn offer all the capability that gits offer in terms of
branching and merging (ignoring performance issues)?

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Regards,
Peng