What are the best version control systems?

I have had experience with both git and mercurial. I find Mercurial much cleaner and easier to use. It doesn't get in the way of my development.

Based out of the need of Linus Torvalds himself for Linux, Git has proven to be instrumental for the Open Source movement. Undoubtedly fast, decentralized, and small, it's advantages made it the most used VCS in the industry, thanks to GitHub and a couple of providers.

I've used Git for everything since 2013. The biggest driving force is the market dominance in that GitHub is where the majority of open source happens. The largest platforms besides GitHub like Git lab and BitBucket either exclusively or primarily use Git. This dominance brings with it a wealth of fantas...

Great environment with not just source control but complete ecosystem of tools. Now, it uses git as default.

Tried it on a small test project