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I do writing as well as coding for personal stuff, and I know I love putting my text into mercurial to track changes. I figured I couldn't be an outlier but maybe I am!

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As do I. I actually am building a two tiered system as my server parts come in. I pretty much have a .repo file that says to track which folders with what protocol either git or rsync, that way I won't fuss with stuff that;s annoying or stupid to version control like binaries, and music.

What's a pain is trying to get those protocols to work not over FTP because SSH slows down file transfer by a factor of 10. When I do transfers via SFTP or SCP I get about 1.1-1.8 MB/s when I do it via FTP I get about 10-11.8 MB/s.

I don't think that is a problem with transfers over SSH. The compression wouldn't cause it to slow down speeds by a factor of 10 so there must be something else that is cutting down the speed.

I regularly (and only) transfer files over ssh/sftp and can manage to sature my 20mbit cable connection.

Hmm, that's weird, I get much higher speeds in vsftp what protocol and settings are you using?

Take a look at the mr command. I find it very handy for working with heterogeneous collections.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/

Same. I use subversion to keep track of .tex and .svg files as well as many other odds and ends.

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