The biggest difference is in defaults. Hg defaults are more applicable to smaller teams while Git's are towards larger ones. (You can always apply extra flags

The biggest difference is in defaults. Hg defaults are more applicable to smaller teams while Git's are towards larger ones. (You can always apply extra flags to get the desired behaviour in either case.) For example with tags a `git push` does not send them to the other end. If 1,000 people are cooperating then you don't want to see everyone's tags. (`git push --tags` will send them.)