This accords with my experience as well. I've found HG to be more intuitive to use: less immediately exposed commands, branches were 'obvious', and the help has

This accords with my experience as well. I've found HG to be more intuitive to use: less immediately exposed commands, branches were 'obvious', and the help has been absolutely superb. Further, it Just Works on OSX/Windows/Linux (providing the Python is compiled right...). The big downside to hg IMO is its repository size as opposed to git. I keep a fair number of PDF documents in one repo, and a hg-git conversion drops the size by quite a lot.