@HerraBRE @bob @meredith_matthews Not knowing any better, I'm willing to concede that Git's probably better for large codebases like the kernel but for most projects Mercurial would be way less confusing for the same practical functionality.

It'd be interesting to understand the reasons Git took off the way it did and Mercurial is so much in the shadows. Is it just Github? Seems to me Git popularity came first. Just fashion? I don't know.