[epynonymous]

altogether a means to an end, mercurial and git are both good. i personally use mercurial. have worked with git in the past and was having trouble with the gerrit web front end and the fact that it required java.

i also use bitbucket and since having been bought by atlassian, was able to get lots of free private repositories. i think some people mentioned that they accidentally left cookie secrets in their code on a public github project.

i'm still too early in development to get into the perceived branching woes that others are talking about, but i'll let you know when i get there.

[ldh]

The fun thing about lightweight, painless branching is that once you start to incorporate that into your workflow, it's never too early in a project to use it. Lately every new feature or fix I start to work on begins its life in a topic branch. You never know when you're going to be interrupted or need to switch contexts to work on something else (or even just scrap the whole idea) so having your repository mirror your mental process in a completely seamless way is invaluable.