Mercurial is much easier to understand and use than git, and for the most part has feature parity with it. There isn’t a Git workflow that can’t be done using

Mercurial is much easier to understand and use than git, and for the most part has feature parity with it. There isn’t a Git workflow that can’t be done using Mercurial; in fact, the Mercurial team from what I’ve read and listened to via podcasts, has intentionally added features to accommodate Git-style workflows, since developers obviously like and are using them.