There's no guarantee that new issues will crop up? Well, that's an argument against mercurial as well, is it not? Hell, it's an argument against anything, so I

There's no guarantee that new issues will crop up? Well, that's an argument against mercurial as well, is it not? Hell, it's an argument against anything, so I wonder how you can consider it an argument at all. Actually, the word 'guarantee' is so strong, that in fact you don't have any guarantee that the mercurial project will fork, or implode, or even that the next financial crisis would turn the world into a post-apocalyptic one similar to Mad Max before any of that is relevant. You don't have a guarantee of anything. That's why unlike you; I didn't talk about guarantees, but 'chances', and chances are: the most active and successful project (git) will solve its issues faster than anyone else. I have seen that time and time again. And at the time I wrote the article, I didn't even need to speculate, because the issues Google pointed were actually SOLVED at that point in time. So, no, Google was not correct. In fact, not only wasn't Google correct in 2011 with the benefit of hindsight, they weren't correct in 2008 as I explained some of their arguments were invalid. And I mentioned; support for Git was one of the most wanted features, and they eventually did it. Most likely the only real reason they did mercurial first, was not any that they stated, but the fact that it was written in Python, so it was easier to port to their server tools; they mentioned something like that as a reason for the delay for Git support in their issue tracker. And Git doesn't require any third party install, so that's inaccurate. And yes, I mentioned in my blog post that I was biased, however, I can be biased and arrive to the right conclusion. So far, after 160 comments, nobody has managed to show that mercurial branches are as powerful as git ones, which suggests that my conclusion was correct. Feel free to try to prove otherwise in my blog post, comments are open, and prepare to be refuted, like everybody else has been.