I was trying to explain Mercurial to other folks at a Subversion shop to make the case for DVCS to them, seemed like it'd be easier to describe the shift from S

I was trying to explain Mercurial to other folks at a Subversion shop to make the case for DVCS to them, seemed like it'd be easier to describe the shift from SVN to Hg rather than SVN to Git. As part of this I drew a diagram on a whiteboard I had put up in my cubicle, which I then forgot to erase. A week later I was in the middle of coding when one of the nontechnical people from the company came by my cubicle, I motioned for him to wait a minute for me to finish what I was writing before talking to him, which he did. When I finally looked up, "okay, what's up," he said "first, let me see if I got the gist of this diagram. Inside of a folder you have this repository file named .hg..." and proceeded to give me a half-good explanation of how Mercurial works. And I was just floored and I said "yep, yep, there you go," and at the end he was like "so why do we save all of these things in Fileserv with a timestamp at the end?" and I was like "well I'll send you a link to TortoiseHg and you can just start using it, but yeah most people just want to do the thing that's in front of them and don't want to learn a whole tool that does things differently to get started." (And sadly that was true and as far as I know he also never invested the time to learn TortoiseHg and get started with that, haha.) Left an impression on me, for sure.