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Not having used Hg much at all (just a few hg commits and an hg clone), could it be used on top of a non-distributed source control system like SVN?

E.g., take advantage of hg commit and related commands to try changes out on the local repository, and use svn to commit those changes to the central repository?

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You shouldn't have much problem with that. You'd just have to make svn ignore the .hg folder in your local repository, and you can use hg locally for whatever you want, and when you're at a point that you want to push your changes to your svn central repository, you can.

git-svn does exactly what you describe: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html

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