I used Mercurial as my main DCVS (and even pushed it at work) for many years, but now I faced the fact that git won and use it for everything. I have to use git

I used Mercurial as my main DCVS (and even pushed it at work) for many years, but now I faced the fact that git won and use it for everything. I have to use git anyway, so I might as well not deal with two different workflows and use git exclusively. Mercurial was ahead of git for a long time as far as usability and documentations were concerned. I still think it's a better match than git for many uses cases. Mercurial makes the simple stuff simple and the complicated stuff complicated (although still achievable), whereas git is more of a mixed bag in my experience. Git was superior for very large projects with many contributors working on completely different features and sending each other patches by email (e.g. the Linux kernel) but in practice 99% of projects, both FLOSS and corporate, don't have this profile. Git is a formula one, mercurial is more like a comfortable Sedan, so to speak[1]. I think git made it mainly because it could boast hosting the Linux kernel development and all the cool kids were on github. [1] Which reminds me of this "Git is MacGuyver, Mercurial is James Bond" comparison which is probably widely out of date by now: https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/ https://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercu...