I was a git skeptic for very long, because I couldn't understand what the heck it is doing, or how I could do stuff with it.

Then rakudo switched to git, and I was forced to learn it to some extent. Now I'm sold to it, because it does all the offline working that I need, local branching, diffs and blame annotations in no time (that SVN would only give me with internet access and a minute of waiting), rebase etc.

I do see that it's rather confusing at first, and not very easy to learn.

I have not experimented with Mercurial or any other distributed version control system (except a bit playing with darcs and svk, both which didn't really appeal to me at that time) so I can't really comment on them, but I'm pretty sure that distributed version control systems are the way to go - which one exactly is really up to personal preference.

In reply to Re: Git vs Hg or GitHub vs Bitbucket for Perl projects by moritz
in thread Git vs Hg or GitHub vs Bitbucket for Perl projects by Burak

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