You'll probably like Mercurial better. However, the race has basically already been won by Git. I wish Git would be less confusing while still keeping its power

You'll probably like Mercurial better. However, the race has basically already been won by Git. I wish Git would be less confusing while still keeping its power. None of its terminology is intuitive, so you must spend a lot of unnecessary time learning git specific jargon to use it effectively.