For purely local use I really don't think there's actually a substantial difference between mercurial and git in terms of interface, mother's love or not. When

For purely local use I really don't think there's actually a substantial difference between mercurial and git in terms of interface, mother's love or not. When you start talking about running it over apache you've gone into a whole other use case (and suddenly you have apache as well...). I also think this is a relatively old complaint. Git's interface has improved a lot in the 1.8-2.1 window of versions, and now gives pretty decent guidance on some of the hairier parts of itself even.