Thanks! I already use hg-git for pushing some open-source projects to GitHub, as it makes it easier for people to contribute patches and issues, and if I was l

Thanks! I already use hg-git for pushing some open-source projects to GitHub, as it makes it easier for people to contribute patches and issues, and if I was looking for a professional software job, that's what people look at, among other things to evaluate you. That said, syncing up multiple branches can be confusing (as git branches are mapped to bookmarks, and mercurial branches don't have git equivalents, so if you have say a default and a dev branch in hg and want equivalent branches in git, you need to manually juggle bookmarks in hg). My worry, more than my goals, is that would it be a major problem not having mastered git should I look for professional jobs? I do know git to some extent, but don't know common medium-advanced tasks. WRT your first paragraph, there is a story on the front page of MS having agreed to acquire GH: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527