But, it is a fact that after using hg for a couple of personal projects, there was no subversion feature I missed. Mercurial is a batteries-included software and I highly appreciate this. I was excited about not having to install a 3rd party web-based frontend and also about the fact that I could use mod_wsgi daemon processes to isolate the code repositories from the rest of the web apps running on the web server. That was impossible with mod_dav_svn. It is such small practical things that make a difference to me.

Finally, I’d like to thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences :)

Some of the good points are those I wrote about in my posts. Others, like being able to fit all of hg’s “model” in the short-term cache of my brain are less pronounced, but equally important.

Have fun with hg. If you have questions about it email either me or the public list at mercurial@selenic.com