Moving to Mercurial

There's been a lot of discussion about version control lately, and here's my little contribution to it.

I've selected Mercurial for the DVCS at work, and that's what I'll be using for my personal projects too. Mostly because I'm not going to learn darcs as well.

The other finalist was git. I was recently watching that Google Talk video featuring Linus Torvalds, and he made a lot of good points (even if you don't like him calling people and entire projects stupid).

We were going to move to Subversion, just because it is the 'better CVS', but we haven't actually started implementing it yet. We aren't really pushing the limits of even CVS yet at work, but we'll be working on some much larger SW projects soon, so now's the time to switch.

For the record, here's what swayed me for Mercurial: cross-platform support (runs on Windows), Trac integration, and written in Python (which will be used for a bunch of our other development tools). By most accounts, it is as fast as git, and doesn't have some of odd corner-case behavior of darcs (which will hopefully be fixed soon).

I have run into one problem with Mercurial already. If you store a repository on a FAT filesystem (my flash drive), it apparently isn't compatible between Windows and Linux. :-(