Git versus Mercurial for .NET developers?

Question

I\'ve been wondering what is the better DVCS for .NET developers? From reading various information it has sounded like Mercurial works better on Windows, but other information

Answer 1

I haven't used Mercurial seriously, but have just finished switching to Git from Subversion for .NET development. The distribution that I'm using is Git Extensions, which install the standard (msys) Git, plus a graphical frontend, some Windows Explorer integration, and a Visual Studio plugin. It also ships with good docs. The Explorer integration doesn't provide the neat status markers on file icons that TortoiseSVN does, but just adds the essentials to the right-click menu. All of these tools are working fine.

The biggest issue I've found is that Git requires you to understand the concepts to get good results. The graphical interfaces of Git Extensions are just thin shells over the Git facilities, so if you struggle with, say, submodules, then none of the tools provided by Git Extensions will solve that problem. There are now loads of tutorials and videos about Git online, though.

By default Windows builds of Git convert line endings to CRLF; as we are completely an MS shop this is the right behavior for us.