The_Tick

For #1, yes it's decentralized but when running a team of people having a central clone is ideal. Yea I get it you can push and pull all day long but in reality people want to have a centralized location.

The big appeal for moving to mercurial for us was better merging than svn. Our team worked a certain way already, the tool handle this workflow and that's one of the reasons we chose mercurial. Decentralized was just nice for full backups in a lot of ways.