Migrating away from Clearcase

Question

We are migrating from Clearcase to another VCS (probably either SVN or Mercurial). For companies that have made this transition, what factors did they find important in sel

Answer 1

A couple to add are:

• Performance: slow development tools interrupt the developers' thought processes
• Power (Functionality): How good is merging? Newer tools like git have much better merge support and tracking than old-style tools such as CVS and SVN. Git also offers very handy tools such as bisect that speed the development process.
• Community support: How widely accepted is the tool? You don't want to pick something that will be on the sidelines five years down the road.