I moved most of my code from self-hosted SVN to Mercurial repositories on bitbucket.org several months ago.

I always found git completely horrible to use, but switching from svn to hg has been a relatively simple matter.

Now that I've switched to hg, I feel I have a better understanding of git, as they're not a million miles apart, and I am reasonably comfortable working on other peoples' git projects. However, UX-wise I still think hg is streets ahead of git, and have no desire to switch away from hg.

The main advantage of distributed SCM for me personally (and I realise there are far bigger advantages that may be applicable to other people - they just don't necessarily apply to me!) is the ability to check in source code changes without an Internet connection, as I often code on trains, etc.

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In reply to Re: Thoughts on Git, Mercurial, Github, and Bitbucket. by tobyink
in thread Thoughts on Git, Mercurial, Github, and Bitbucket. by bms

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