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By the same token, why have multiple programming languages? We can just use C. Why have different operating systems, we can use Windows for everything.

I'm actually super happy about mercurial support. Git is very complex and that complexity is a real barrier to entry and a time suck when a beginner invariably screws up. And if you feel comfortable with your git Fu, please explain to a beginner how to recover lost commits using git reflog or when you would use an octopus merge.

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That comparisong is not fair, but anyway, no need for new languages today, we should improve the existing ones. See UncleBob's opinion on these: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/08/06/LetTheMagicD...

C is just terrible, it has to be improved, but the "Git vs Mercurial" is not the same topic, because Mercurial is not THAT MUCH better to worth to replace it or make thing more complex.

I think other languages have much more to offer over C so that it's worth it. Same for Git over SVN. Hg over Git? Not worth it IMHO.

A sane user interface without page length manuals how to recover a working copy, that usually end up with nuking the work directory and doing a fresh git clone instead.

    git reset --hard

Also people seem to have broken their Hg repositories, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030559

Pity that this doesn't exist for Mercurial then.

https://xkcd.com/1597/

I think the other way; git doesn't have much to offer over Hg, so we should all be using Hg.

We are mostly using Git right now though.

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