Mercurial has the same ability to change history as git, it just doesn't make it the default workflow. The mq extension (Mercurial Queues) lets you pull existin

Mercurial has the same ability to change history as git, it just doesn't make it the default workflow. The mq extension (Mercurial Queues) lets you pull existing changesets into a temporary queue, fold them, reorder them, etc. The rebase extension lets you rebase and the histedit extension lets you edit history in slightly different ways. All of these ship with Mercurial, but are turned off be default. Enabling them is just a matter of adding [extensions] mq = to your .hgrc file.