for me the biggest advantage is working in my own repository and then pushing the changes upstream. I can develop features independent of other features. If the

for me the biggest advantage is working in my own repository and then pushing the changes upstream. I can develop features independent of other features. If there is a bug I can fix it, merge it into the productive branch and carry on working on other features. I know that many people don't like it, but I can fix up commits in my local repository and push the change upstream in one. With SVN I wasn't able to do this, so it was a big pain if you had to fix a bug if you were in the middle of a big feature, or if you had an experimental feature you wanted to clean up and release a month later.