You've written about this before? Please stop! This is a great example of some of the worst kinds of advocacy. You showed up to an article about the technology

You've written about this before? Please stop! This is a great example of some of the worst kinds of advocacy. You showed up to an article about the technology you don't like to pimp the technology you do like, just to derail the conversation we could be having. Does this Stack Overflow question smack of trying real hard to get you to stop using Git? No, so why are you even here? Your whole point is making a big deal out of something very trivial. These plugins are all core plugins for Mercurial too; the distinction between "core plugin" and "baked-in" is one line of configuration to simply list the plugin name. It's equivalently not "baked in" as your "some assembly required." These plugins are not on by default only because many people don't need to be distracted by them, and those that do wish to use them will have no trouble adding one line to a single configuration file. Learning a whole different SCM is a lot of work to avoid adding one line to a configuration file, don't you think? There isn't a Mercurial user alive who isn't thoroughly and completely aware of Git and all of its magical specialness, thanks to assholes like you who show up to all of our conversations to proselytize us. Please stop patronizing us with these tired arguments—you're turning us into a persecuted minority, and nobody drags out a fight like a persecuted minority.