Dave Dribin wrote a couple of posts on choosing between the usual suspects: Mercurial, Bazaar and Git. Well-written, recommended.
Read at: Choosing a Distributed Version Control System; follow-up: Why I Chose Mercurial.
Recent posts on similar topics
- Subversion moves to ASF; Predicting bugs; updated SCM-Comparison. - November 6th, 2009
- Subversion moves to ASF; Predicting bugs; updated SCM-Comparison. - November 6th, 2009
- Subversion moves to ASF; Predicting bugs; updated SCM-Comparison. - November 6th, 2009
- Why Git is better than X - February 1st, 2009
- Why Git is better than X - February 1st, 2009
The URLs on this page “Choosing a Distributed Version Control System” and “Why I Chose Mercurial” look right on initial load of the page (when I hover my mouse over these links), but when I click the links, the URL gets garbled (perhaps with a server-side rewrite or something) to the following (using the second link as an example):
http://versioncontrolblog.com/r/http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2007/12/30/why_mercurial/
Another comment related to the Version Control Blog itself: I am unable to modify my own profile on this site. When I click on my username above this comment box for example, I get the following:
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You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/profile.php on this server.
Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) Server at versioncontrolblog.com Port 80