> Why Git came to dominate and not Mercurial? I was an early proponent of Mercurial over git. While they are similar, a few “minor” things made a big differenc

> Why Git came to dominate and not Mercurial? I was an early proponent of Mercurial over git. While they are similar, a few “minor” things made a big difference: Mercurial distinguished between branches and heads, whereas git did not. This added extra complexity. Git embraced checksums as identifiers while Mercurial provided local revision numbers, this obscured the mental model. Git is faster to pronounce than either “Mercurial” (which has a tricky vowel in there) or “hg”.