Mercurial definitely is easier and prevents a lot of dangerous behaviour, but it's also unfortunately not quite supported enough to do much CI (unless you also

Mercurial definitely is easier and prevents a lot of dangerous behaviour, but it's also unfortunately not quite supported enough to do much CI (unless you also want to maintain your own Jenkins setup) and isn't supported by some IDEs (looking at you, Xcode). The 2018 StackOverflow survey[0] regarding Version Control also shows how Mercurial fares, even against zip files (!!). It shouldn't prevent anyone from learning it or using it, but it's important to keep those things in mind when considering any kind of work with existing companies (or on the flip-side, any recruitment of staff when creating a company). [0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-_-version-control https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-_-versi...