As with most software, it probably depends largely on what you're used to. I started my distributed SCM life in Mercurial (moving from svn) and found it to be f

As with most software, it probably depends largely on what you're used to. I started my distributed SCM life in Mercurial (moving from svn) and found it to be fast, simple and friendly to use. Being an experienced Mercurial user, I hated git when I first started using it - changing something as core to one's development life as the SCM isn't easy. But after a while of working with both, you start seeing git and hg as relatively equal products, just with different UI quirks. I eventually moved most of my projects to git, though. Not because I thought it was better, but because it was more widely used. And being the collaborative type, using git was the path of least resistance.