Re: preferring mercurial

[Nathan Trapuzzano]

François Orieux <address@hidden> writes:

> But by taking into account all the pro and cons of both tools, we must
> admit that the sole thing that really remains is that git is popular:
> git is chosen because "everybody" chose this tool. Why not afterall.

I still don't think that's right.  Git and Mercurial have significantly
different data models.  Git's model is much simpler and allows complex
actions to be defined in terms of a small number of very basic unifying
concepts, whereas the same actions in Mercurial often require
non-standard extensions.  As I believe someone in this thread already
put it: "Git got branches right, Mercurial (and Bazaar, etc.) didn't".
This essay describes the difference well:

http://xentac.net/2012/01/19/the-real-difference-between-git-and-mercurial.html