I remember when dvcs really started taking off, I went with bzr because of the simplicity of the UI. I was also on Windows at the time (wow, that was a while a

I remember when dvcs really started taking off, I went with bzr because of the simplicity of the UI. I was also on Windows at the time (wow, that was a while ago!), and git didn't have native windows support back then while bzr did. I still much prefer bzr's UI from what I remember of it. It was simple, consistent, and perfectly fine with the occasional typo. But suddenly "everything" was on git; github was a rocket; bzr just felt slower and slower as my repos grew; launchpad was incredibly confusing; I'd been using git/github for outside projects and finally tried git for one of my own, and then started getting confused between the UIs. I picked the one that had the better trajectory. Also, we (the startup I was with) were starting to hire people and using git was easier than forcing the new people to learn bzr. Mercurial looks great, and always has. I just never really had an incentive to switch to it. Edit: Sorry, got lost in my own story. I agree with the siblings here. "junk" is rather strong for something that's so universally used. I don't love git, but it definitely won my support.