[ezquerra]

I'm a TortoiseHg (mercurial GUI front-end) developer and an (occasional) mercurial contributor.

I think this is really great news, both for git, Microsoft and OSS in general. It is definitely a great move for Microsoft.

I hope they also add support for Mercurial in the future. Git is a great tool but I think Mercurial is equally powerful yet easier to use and understand (IMHO). It is not as widely used as git, particularly in OSS circles, but there are many OSS projects (e.g. Python) and many companies (e.g. Mozilla and Facebook) that use Mercurial very successfully. Choosing Git as the first DVCS they support makes a lot of sense, but Mercurial would be a nice second choice.

In particular, being able to use mercurial with TFS would be awesome in an enterprise context. Plus I'm sure all in the TortoiseHg project would welcome the competition if Visual Studio were to get builtin support for Mercurial as well as git :-)

[xradionut]

Considering it's history of abandoning projects, products and APIs, Microsoft will probably neglect Mercurial.