So in the rounds that I go on the internet I came across this article: Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax. Had I seen this back when I was reading up on dvcs it would have swayed my decision on which one to go with back then. But since I have read it and I thought it was a well represented case between git and mercurial I figured that I would at least look into it a bit more.

After spending quite a bit of time on this one, I have come to the conclusion that none of the ones out there really work all that well. Regardless of the actual version system that they are interfacing like mercurial, or subversion etc. At least on the mac at any rate. Now there are a few that are decent and a few that I haven't really dug into and at this point really not all that particular about any that are out there. Out of the ones that I have used for subversion I pretty much settled with SmartSVN, which is feature limited free.

In the last couple of days I somehow got turned towards Mercurial as a Versioning system, and after a pretty in depth look decided that it would be the better of the versioning system. At least significantly better than Subversion at any rate not sure about the other versioning systems but I decided to go with this one in particular. Some of the things that I gathered that make it better than Subversion is that it is a distributed system and the way these particular ones work is that the whole repository is cloned instead of a revision being checked out.