This site is here because I seem to be spending a lot of time lately defending Gitsters against charges of fanboyism, bandwagonism and koolaid-thirst. So, here is why people are switching to Git from X, and why you should too. Just click on a reason to view it.

guide to getting started with git

via https://twitter.com/#!/mikeyk/status/164426104046747648

Git has plenty of great features. Using all of them can be difficult if you only have your command line at hand. That's why we built Tower.

TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system.

You would think that reverting to a previous version of your application would be one of the key use cases for a version control system like Subversion and that it would be trivial to do, but it's actually not intuitive at all.

"simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are assigned and incremented"

""For this system to work, you first need to declare a public API. This may consist of documentation or be enforced by the code itself. Regardless, it is important that this API be clear and precise. Once you identify your public API, you communicate changes to it with specific increments to your version number. Consider a version format of X.Y.Z (Major.Minor.Patch). Bug fixes not affecting the API increment the patch version, backwards compatible API additions/changes increment the minor version, and backwards incompatible API changes increment the major version.