Re: do you recommend "git" (over svn) for a 1-person team???

At this point, it is clear that you've bought into using *some* form of revision control locally. So you are really asking whether DVCS is appropriate for personal-only use. If all you care about is the ability to commit locally, then you might as well use vanilla RCS (i.e., the ultimate "plumbing" behind SVN).

How easy DVCS solutions make merging and rebasing is a secondary feature for me. Primarily, I like that while doing my work, I don't ever have to *think* about the revision control. I don't have to check out or lock files. I don't have to worry about checking in all of my changes. I just work, and, when I'm ready, the DVCS takes care of everything else. It's the *overall* ease of use that makes DVCS so valuable to me... (and who knows... maybe later someone will want to clone my repo and we'll trade commits back and forth)

[ Keep in mind that git is not the only DVCS. For some of my personal projects, I use hg (Mercurial), and for others I use git. On none of them do I use SVN. Unfortunately, the proliferation of SVN on SourceForge has prevented me from contributed myriad local patches to projects that are otherwise very important to me. Perhaps another great reason to use DVCS locally is that you'll be putting implicit pressure on places like SF to modernize. ]

Best -- Ted