I was using Mercurial ages ago because it somewhat felt easier, but at that time I was using Tortoise* and Hg flavour was more straightforward to use that Git o

I was using Mercurial ages ago because it somewhat felt easier, but at that time I was using Tortoise* and Hg flavour was more straightforward to use that Git one (using mingw or somesuch) and my grasp of the concepts was... lacking to say the least. Fast forward and I took some time to learn git (and also migrated to mac which had great shell) and each time I had to use hg it was painful... odd concepts and it was sooo sloooooooow...