I liked Mercurial a lot but got disappointed in the past by it’s inability to store files larger than a few megabytes. Furthermore, I prefer the storage model of git, which is based on cryptographic hashes, which I have first seen in OpenCM many years ago and which was first popularized (IMHO) by Monotone.

So, yesterday I decided to get rid of Mercurial in favor of using git. This will allow me to store huge videos in a repository. I have also converted some of my subversion repositories which wasn’t all that easy because they got somehow corrupted so that I had to use a two year old backup (I haven’t used svn since two years :). It seems that I destroyed the original repository simply by using a newer version of the subversion client svn. Luckily, I haven’t made any change to the repository for more than two years, so the backup contained exactly the same data. In this point I fully agree with Linus that “Subversion is the most pointless project ever started”.