Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby - Joel on Software
This is possibly the biggest advance in software development technology in the ten years I’ve been writing articles here.
Or, to put it another way, I’d go back to C++ before I gave up on Mercurial.
If you are using Subversion, stop it. Just stop. Subversion = Leeches. Mercurial and Git = Antibiotics. We have better technology now.
Gah. We are using CVS. We had hopes of someday *upgrading* to Subversion.