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This is older than git 1.9, but git supports mercurial repositories[1]. I used to have to use mercurial to deal with kiln (which couldn't convert our repo to git), but now I happily work with git and everything is 10 times faster.

[1]: https://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/git-remote-hg-bzr-2...

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When was the last time you used Mercurial? Git being 10 times faster seems dated. Especially if you're using Facebook's fabulous Mercurial extensions, which actually make Mercurial faster than Git.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...

There are no version numbers in those benchmarks, nor any way to reproduce them. So take them with a few grains of salt.

In particular, how old was the version of git they were testing with? Were they using SSDs?

I'm curious: where does this 10x speed increase come from? are you implying that git is inherently faster than mercurial? I've not actually used mercurial myself so I wouldn't know...

git status is 10 times faster on my machine for the same repository than hg status.

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