On 03/01/2014 06:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > The biggest thing for us is subversion's ability to use svn 'external' > properties at any point in a tree to reference any other svn URL. > Checkouts and updates automatically pull in those other locations into > your working copy. That lets each component of a large project have > its own release schedule by tagging versions and the consuming > projects can each advance the versions they use as they are ready > simply by changing their external references. And an automated > build system like jenkins will see anything new and rebuild as needed > simply by polling the top level project. See Merc's "subrepos": http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Subrepository?action=show&redirect=subrepos (Or not. If SVN's working well for you, more power to you.)