Would you migrate from cvs to svn or directly to git or hg?

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I don\'t know if this is the right forum to ask.

My company makes use of CVS as a version control system. We plan to move to a more modern version control system. What w

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Yes, infact we have just moved from SVN to Mercurial.

Aside from the distributed side of things Mercurial and GIT are alot faster than SVN, and also the repo doesnt have annoying .SVN folders in ever folder. Not to mention the merge works alot better! The fact yuo can also store your repo on any shared drive is nice (No need to install stuff on the server, for Mercurial anyways)

More reading

Should I use SVN or Git?

http://www.richappsconsulting.com/blog/blog-detail/svn-vs-git-who-will-be-the-future-of-revision-control/

http://thinkvitamin.com/code/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git/

http://techblog.floorplanner.com/2008/12/09/git-vs-svn-for-bosses/

And finally GIT Vs Mercurial

http://gitvsmercurial.com/ - This site looks like it's dead now :(