[filoleg]

> I cannot believe that new hires would be upset by the choice of version control software.

I can, if the version control software is just not up to standards.

I absolutely didn’t mind using mercurial/hg, even though I literally haven’t touched it until that point and knew nothing about it, because it is actually pretty good. I like it more than git now.

Git is a decent option that most people would be familiar with, cannot be upset about it either.

On another hand, Source Depot sucked badly, it felt like I had to fight against it the entire time. I wasn’t upset because it was unfamiliar to me. In fact, the more familiar I got with it, the more I disliked it.

[kccqzy]

You missed the point. The point is, a new hire being asked to use a new version control software likely doesn't know whether the tool is more like hg or more like source depot. It takes times to figure out that. So they need to reserve judgement.

[filoleg]

Not what I got out of that comment, but I fully agree with your take on new hires not being able to tell whether an unfamiliar version control piece of software is good or bad until they get at least somewhat familiar with it.