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It is definitely not. I wrote in another comment, there was a time when hg was leading in popularity (for the right reason: good ui), but git won for the right

• dasil003 13y ago
  Also, in a world of worse-is-better defacto software standards I'd say the choice between hg and git almost doesn't matter. I mean thank god people pulled their heads out of their asses enough to actually let Subversion lose the trench holy wars inevitable with the kind of sea change DVCS represented.
• twic 13y ago
  Could you outline what it is that you think makes Git better? From my daily experience with both Mercurial and Git, i would say the exact opposite. I can't think of anything that Git does better than Mercurial. I can certainly think of things it does in a needlessly more complicated way - the handling of remote tracking branches and the use of the index are obvious ones. Git's fixation on branches over commits is a persistent deep source of pain for users around me. And you can pry revsets from my cold, dead hands. Now, there was a time when Mercurial didn't have bookmarks. During that time, if you wanted a good lightweight branching model, Git was your only option (er, well maybe bzr or Darcs were, who knows). I was never that excited about lightweight branching; the weight of heavyweight branches does not seem substantial. Today, Mercurial has bookmarks that work pretty much like Git branches, so this advantage has evaporated.