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For home projects, can Mercurial or Git (or other DVCS) provide more advantages over Subversion?
What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar?
What are some of the differences between these source control system? Which one is the best for a small 2 people project?
SVN is different from Git and Mercurial, in that it is a single repository that all users have to pull and commit to.
Git and Mercurial have a distributed model. This means that there is a repository on every computer and there is usually an “Official” repository that people will choose to commit their changes to and pull from.
Git and Mercurial are extremely similar. I prefer Mercurial because I found it much easier to use. For a 2 person team I would recommend Mercurial, but that is just my opinion. If you are not familiar with version control then you are still gonna have to spend your time learning to use any of the options, but Mercurial seemed the easiest for me.
To start a Mercurial repository all you have to do is open a shell and cd to the directory you want to have version control in, and type
hg init. That creates the repository. To add everything in the folder to the repository, typehg add .. Here are some other various commands:hg commit -m "Descriptions of changes"hg pullhg push