Ezy, I understand where you are coming from. I used to think the same way. But once you have used git or Mercurial with their powerful branching/merging capabi

Ezy, I understand where you are coming from. I used to think the same way. But once you have used git or Mercurial with their powerful branching/merging capabilities, you will never go back to anything else. Also, it's not that the tools aren't better, it's that git and Mercurial have different architecture which makes branching/merging easy and powerful. I would sincerely request you to not dismiss this 'branch/merge' phenomena. Once you understand their power, you would wonder why you ever managed to live with Subversion (or other centralized VCS). Searching on Google, I came across this example which will show you how powerful Git really is. [warning: PDF link] http://ietl.univ-lyon2.fr/sites/ietl/IMG/pdf/Git_merging_by_example.pdf http://ietl.univ-lyon2.fr/sites/ietl/IMG/pdf/Git_merging_by_...