I prefer Mercurial for mostly cosmetic reasons (I believe that Git and Mercurial are very close, feature-wise). I prefer having one command "hg" ("hd add", "hg

I prefer Mercurial for mostly cosmetic reasons (I believe that Git and Mercurial are very close, feature-wise). I prefer having one command "hg" ("hd add", "hg serve", etc.) to the dozens of commands for git. I think it has more to do with the way that I think than anything else: Mercurial commands are easier to remember for me.