Migrating away from Clearcase

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Published on 2009-08-06T15:22:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 0:01 UTC
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We are migrating from Clearcase to another VCS (probably either SVN or Mercurial). For companies that have made this transition, what factors did they find important in selecting another VCS tool, and what practices did they find eased the transition?

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