I didn't even catch that in the original article which I did read. Your comment makes much more sense. Having used Hg and git, I do not feel they're equivalent

I didn't even catch that in the original article which I did read. Your comment makes much more sense. Having used Hg and git, I do not feel they're equivalent. I feel Hg is quite a bit more friendly to new folks, however git is considerably more powerful feeling to moderately good folks. I'm honestly a little sad python people are so enamored with Hg :o( Honestly, the "Your repo can be marked public or private" thing gives me the willies. I prefer offerings which don't support public status, so you never accidentally dump your codebase onto the internet. But if you are doing something open source, it fantastic.