For me it definitely was performance. 5 years ago or so I ended up using a mercurial-git bridge just to use git on a team where everyone was on hg. IIRC git gr

For me it definitely was performance. 5 years ago or so I ended up using a mercurial-git bridge just to use git on a team where everyone was on hg. IIRC git grep search took seconds compared to more than a minute with hg grep.