Anyway, this finally pushed me to have a look at alternatives. I’ve been wanting to try out Mercurial for some time now and this pushed me over the edge. My first impression is really good! I obviously have to spend some time getting used to the distributed model, but it seems like it might be worth it. Everything was looking rose red until I figured out that it doesn’t support tracking of empty folders!? It does make sense when I think about their architecture built up around sha1 sums, but I still think that it’s strange. I often create a directory structure before I start coding. The workaround seems to be creating empty files inside each folder, which sounds a little annoying to me.

That’s it for now. Man it felt good to shout and scream a little about Subversion!