I do think git is better than mercurial in significant ways, at least how it was circa 2010: - tag handling in hg is (was ?) horrible - I think using integers

I do think git is better than mercurial in significant ways, at least how it was circa 2010: - tag handling in hg is (was ?) horrible - I think using integers for revisions, even if just in the UI is a very confusing feature, as it gives a false sense of familiarity (hg like every DVCS I know internally uses unique ids for revisions). - too many ways to do branching that all have +/-. While you can do it in a similar way to git, you don't have all the UI that makes it so useful. - the notion of tip is a major UI wart as well. On the + for mercurial: definitely better support for cross platform, more consistant UI, better performances on windows.