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What is the best version control system?

There’s so many version control projects out there for software development, but which one is the best? Linus Torvalds pushes GIT (see the Google TechTalk). I still use subversion, it gets the job done for me, so why move to something else? I don’t need a distributed version of subverison, so what does GIT buy me besides the ability to tell everyone that I now have a DVCS?

In the last week or so i’ve run into 3 or 4 sites/blogs for software apps that either mentioned that they’ve changed over to a new DVCS or they have published documentation letting you know how to extract the latest or stable versions of their abc software through their xyz distributed version control system.

Today I just read that Python is switching to Mercurial and they included a long winded explanation of why they chose that one. In short, it seems it was deemed a better fit for python development. Meanwhile, ecryptfs is using bazaar (bzr). So I guess it’s just a coke vs. pepsi type of fight for some folks…