Mercurial Vs. Monotone & Darcs

[Marcin Kasperski]

> Hello guys, I am trying to learn / pick one version control system to 
> use in the company that I work for, where they currently use svn. And 
> for my personal projects as well.
Well, it need not always be case. Company and personal needs can differ, 
for example.

>
> I saw the conference video on google on mercurial and I pretty much 
> like it right away. But some guy I respect a bit told me take a look 
> at monotone and darcs as well.
If you mean distributed VC, add also git, bazaar-ng and svk to the list. 
And maybe sth else ;-)

The good news is that the conversion tools are fairly good and 
improving, so you can try one tool and migrate to the another one later.