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Mercurial is Teh Awesome

My team at work recently switched from Subversion to Mercurial for revision control. That’s no small feat for a hardware design team (see: Averse to Change ). It helps a little that we are mainly FPGA people (a lot “softer” than an ASIC), but there are still definitely hardware attitudes about change. Our software partners made the change a while ago, so they already had some process and infrastructure set up that made it easier for us, plus they could point out from real experience that it was an easy transition with many benefits. That helped a lot. I took the lead on making the change for our team (is it true everywhere that on a digital design team, the verification engineers are the de-facto “tool guys” as well?). I studied up on how exactly mercurial works. I mean, I had the basic idea down since I’ve been toying with the fancy new revision control tools for a while now , but I didn’t really reach enlightenment until a few months ago when I read Steve Losh’s A Guide to B