Git or Mercurial usage in Java projects

Question

Just wondering if any of you are using Git or Mercurial for your Java projects, or is Subversion still the most popular choice? I've been looking at github.com and bitbucket.org lately, but because the repositories might be private, I can't get a good indication of actual usage.

Answer 1

Be careful.

Do you remember how you felt about CVS after you used subversion?

You'll feel exactly the same way about subversion if you use git/mercurial.

Yeah, sure, you drop in for Christmas and the odd weekend,
but you can never go home again.

Answer 2

I don't think language should come into the equation. Both Mercurial and Git are functionally similar and conceptually very different than Subversion. It's more important that you select the right flavour of version control for the way you want to work.

As it happens, I use Mercurial with Java. I use Netbeans as my IDE which has built in support for both Mercurial and Subversion - both work well. I can highly recommend Bitbucket too.