git has done an excellent job of bringing this abuse into the 2010s. If you need to delete a local copy of a git repo, which is often only useful for a couple m

git has done an excellent job of bringing this abuse into the 2010s. If you need to delete a local copy of a git repo, which is often only useful for a couple minutes while evaluating code, you have to do something to override the read only files git creates. Mercurial doesn't have this issue.