Mercurial was a real eye-opener. Before a friend basically made me try Mercurial, I was using Subversion for managing my private projects, and it was not exactl

Mercurial was a real eye-opener. Before a friend basically made me try Mercurial, I was using Subversion for managing my private projects, and it was not exactly fun. Especially when I was working on my laptop (netbook, actually, but that is totally OT), away from home, without access to the server. Mercurial made VCS fun. I recently moved on to Fossil, because I do like the integrated wiki and ticket system for smallish projects, but without Mercurial I never would have gotten there. I also like Mercurial's hooks. I am not sure if other DCVS support that, but hooks are great. (Fossil doesn't appear to have them)