I suspect you are using git the way you use svn. In that case there's little or no benefit. It's essentially the "Blub VCS" problem. Using Git or Mercurial offe

I suspect you are using git the way you use svn. In that case there's little or no benefit. It's essentially the "Blub VCS" problem. Using Git or Mercurial offer a few very powerful things, but they won't seem like much until you have the "Aha!" moment. If you're interested, read the workflow parts of http://progit.org/book/ http://progit.org/book/ and see what you think.