The biggest feature for me is the efficient handling of large binary files, because it means I could finally have a completely self-contained repository (clone

The biggest feature for me is the efficient handling of large binary files, because it means I could finally have a completely self-contained repository (clone and everything is in one place, plus free replication), but without the performance penalties which for example Mercurial incurs with binary files: https://www.bitkeeper.org/why.html https://www.bitkeeper.org/why.html I have to try it out just for that!