git is great even if you're developing by yourself. I use git exclusively for all my work now (and use git-svn to integrate with others at work that use svn). S

git is great even if you're developing by yourself. I use git exclusively for all my work now (and use git-svn to integrate with others at work that use svn). Some of the benefits are: merge tracking: this will also come to subversion in the future (but you'll have to migrate your repository) having the entire repository checked out locally for offline use (being able to code on the train on the way to work is great) fast branches - branches are really fast, especially since they're done locally, and there's basically no excuse for not quickly creating a branch when you want to try something out, and merge tracking forking other open source repositories (including svn and cvs ones) for hacking and maintaing patches (until they get accepted upstream). git is nice and will attempt to always rebase your patches off the latest HEAD (and let you resolve conflicts if they occur). git bisect for binary searching for the revision that broke something (can do a binary search over revisions to find out which revision broke a certain test). did I mention that it integrates with svn? git svn clone http://svnrepo.com/trunk http://svnrepo.com/trunk # do stuff git add stuff/you/changed git commit git svn dcommit # commit changes from git into subversion I could go on...