Gentoo git workflow

Recently my employer (Google) forced me to switch to Mercurial instead of my usual version control system, git. The process of switching sparked a few discussions between me and my colleagues about the value of various version control systems. A question like "what benefit does git provide over Mercurial" yielded no clear answers, suggesting many developers don't know. An informal Twitter survey didn't refute this claim.

Christoph pointed me to a video on Git by Linus. CDK is now using branches extensively in development, and just set up a branch for the upcoming 1.2.0 release later this year (end of October, see cdk-1.2.x). Christoph has just reviewed the branch containing the API move to Iterable.