Git versus Mercurial for .NET developers?

Question

I\'ve been wondering what is the better DVCS for .NET developers? From reading various information it has sounded like Mercurial works better on Windows, but other information

Answer 1

I think that given git's exponential popularity growth, git's good support for windows (akin to that of subversion's with something like tortoiseSVN) is bound to arrive, it is only a matter of time. The two projects that seem to be the most popular are msysgit, and TortoiseGit (also uses msysgit) which is similar to tortoiseSVN. git keeps becoming more and more popular, that if you were to run into any problems which is unlikely now and is becoming even more unlikely as git tools on windows become further developed, you will be able to find fixes a lot easier due to the large userbase.

In the meantime, I have found this series of guides to be very helpful.

Issues you might run into may be ignoring certain files, which should be easy if you lookup how to use .gitignore, which is really straightforward, here is the list of files and wildcards that the series mentions:

obj
bin
_ReSharper.*
*.csproj.user
*.resharper.user
*.resharper
*.suo
*.cache
*~
*.swp

Also I have seen some issues regarding line endings. For that, you will want to check out this question.