Mercurial has both "real" branches (history is kept so you can always tell what revisions were in what branch) as well as git "branch is just a pointer tag" So

Mercurial has both "real" branches (history is kept so you can always tell what revisions were in what branch) as well as git "branch is just a pointer tag" So really you can choose whatever suits your needs. Personally the things I love about mercurial are: more consistent commandline (that's the simple part others bring up) revsets (awesome query language for revisions, there's also filesets, but I don't use that as much) absorb (I think someone added a git extension that does something similar a few months ago) fa --deleted grep --all phases ♥