Distributed Version Control “killer applications”

Question

Considering switching to Mercurial or Git? We are too. I\'m currently studying the benefits of DVCS which turn out to be vast, lust and must.

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Answer 1

The one true actual killer feature is...

merging

DVCS (Git, Mercurial or other) are made for merging (precisely because, being distributed, merging is the key feature allowing those tools to quickly integrate code coming from various remote repositories).
SVN isn't up to the task (even today).
See:

• What makes merging in DVCS easy
• Why is branching and merging easier in Mercurial than in Subversion?
• How does Git solve the merging problem?
• What makes some version control systems better at merging?