version control and development

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
[quote author="frist44" date="1285882447"]I have no interest in getting into a big war, but what made you choose Mercurial over Git?[/quote]
No preference really.

We made the decision to start moving from subversion to a distributed vcs at about the same time we've switched to CI 2. Hence Mercurial over Git.

I haven't seen any major differences between the two, but we don't really use most of the features. The advantage is mainly that you have a repo locally, so you can do local commits (and reverts), without bothering the others. Once you're happy, you push the changes to the central repo. Something you can't do with Subversion, which means you have to branch more, which in turn means big repo's.