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Git and Mercurial are fairly similar, at least compared to what OP is apparently hinting at. Different tech and different internal architectures, but both of them are DVCS offering roughly equivalent workflows.

Mercurial is indeed extremely similar to Git. Also, it's two weeks younger, contrary to OP's (apparently now-deleted) assertion that git was replacing hg. (I find it amusing that bzr, git, and hg all came out within a month of each other.)

It is. The OP is wrong, probably because he has never used Mercurial, which wouldn’t be that surprising given it doesn’t have a lot of users outside of the few remaining companies still using it.

I've never used it, but I have read hg.init[0]!

[0] https://hginit.com