Using Mercurial daily, I don't understand why it isn't widely viewed as the alternative to git that you mention. It seems to avoid some of the pain-points the O

Using Mercurial daily, I don't understand why it isn't widely viewed as the alternative to git that you mention. It seems to avoid some of the pain-points the OP lists. The idea that there are "git faithful" is a sign of how immature (in every sense) the software development field is. Masochism and complexity-worship seem to blight our field(not necessarily referring to git, which I'm not qualified to comment on)