> Disclosure up front, I don't really use git myself. I have tried it and found it to be too confusing. I liked svn

Oh dear, that's bad.

> and these days use hg.

That's better.

> I also tend to work on mostly solo and small projects.

Ah. You probably don't need git then.

I've used a number of systems (RCS, CVS, SCCS, svn, monotone, hg, git). Of them all, hg was the simplest to use. Git was the most powerful.

Everything else listed above is terrible for multiple developers.

But solo developers? "tar" is a reasonable system for small projects. By that standard, SVN is fine, too.