I had to work on a small project for someone, a couple of years ago. I did not have admin access (to install applications, libraries, etc.) on their 20-odd comp

I had to work on a small project for someone, a couple of years ago. I did not have admin access (to install applications, libraries, etc.) on their 20-odd compute servers. They all ran Ubuntu that was about a year-old at that time. They all had the same software, but not the same versions; they were not all updated at the same time. Long story, short: Git was a bitch to compile and run across all these machines. I gave up and installed Mercurial instead. I've stuck with Mercurial ever since. As far as I can see, the only thing Git has going for it now is the "social" nature of GitHub. Otherwise, when people ask, I recommend Mercurial over Git. Once in a while, I come across issues such as this [1] with Git, and I wonder why such people insist on sticking with Git. [1] http://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/patch_queue http://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/patch_queue