The funny thing is: I host projects in Subversion Repos, but access them via the Git Clone command.
Please read Develop with Git on a Google Code Project
Although Google Code natively speaks Subversion, you can easily use Git during development. Searching for "git svn" suggests this practice is widespread, and we too encourage you to experiment with it.
Using Git on a Svn Repository gives me benefits:
backup/public svn repository for others to check outMay I expand on the question and ask if Git work well on MacOS?
Reply to Comments: Thanks for the news, I'd been looking forward to trying it out. I'll install it at home on my Mac.
You have to go with a DVCS, it is like a quantum leap in source management. Personally I use Monotone and its sped up development time no end. We are using it for Windows, Linux and Mac and it has been very stable. I even have buildbot doing nightly builds of the project on each of the platforms.
DVCS while being distributed usually means you will create a central server just for people to push changes to and from.