Why we didn't migrate to Mercurial (long)

[Harvey Chapman]

On Oct 3, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Tom Udale <tom at ionoptix.com> wrote:

I agree with Tom. I moved our small dev team from SVN to mercurial. The single biggest advantage of mercurial for me is this:

No matter how badly I screw up (and I've done some really dumb strips and rebases), I've *always* been able to recover without losing any code. Even the one time I thought I had lost code, I was ok because when I get nervous I clone or create bundles from old_parent to tip. I've always been able to clean up the messes of developers new to mercurial and DVCS. I cannot say that about any VCS I've used previously. The hours I've spent cleaning up SVN repos in the past total to a staggering sum of lost productivity and a worthless use of time and money.

My second favorite thing about mercurial?

hg init; hg ci -A -m "Initial checkin of test project"

So easy.