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i tried to learn git and hg and i found that hg was so much more friendly to work with. when things go wrong in git, cryptic error messages are spawned and i have no idea what to do. when i do things in hg, error messages are actually helpful. even when things don't go wrong, hg constantly gives me helpful advice at the command line. example: after you do hg pull, it tells me that i need to do hg update. why can't git stuff like that?

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I used both, too.

From the mercurial docs: "If you felt uncomfortable dealing with Git's index, you are switching for the better."

To be honest, after a few years with git, I feel uncomfortable without the index.

Agreed - although I will say I've lost count how many times I've had to explain to a junior that "push would create remote heads" just means you need to fetch and then push...

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