Without wanting to add fuel to the fire (really), I always think Git tries to do far too much. I think SCM should just gracefully version your code in as simple

Without wanting to add fuel to the fire (really), I always think Git tries to do far too much. I think SCM should just gracefully version your code in as simple a way as possible. I went from SVN to Git a while ago and it was a great improvement. Then a friend pointed me at mercurial and I just felt it was a revolution. Finally my code felt portable. With all that said Git has some great tools for large and complex projects with many contributors. The one thing that sells HG to me though is it's insistence on non-destructiveness. If you made changes to files it always reminds me to merge changes properly without overwrites. I cant recall how many times that has saved me a n hours work :)