Thinking back about my Git usage, I've indeed only ever used it as a sort of poor man's "hg commit --interactive", so I haven't missed it a bit when using Mercu

Thinking back about my Git usage, I've indeed only ever used it as a sort of poor man's "hg commit --interactive", so I haven't missed it a bit when using Mercurial. Indeed I find Mercurial's model (there's only the repository with the real changesets and the working directory, but not this sort of weird inbetween thing called the staging area) much easier to reason about...