Maybe the video I referred has some mention to it, can’t really recall where i stumbled into that. I remember that someone said Mercurial started as a conceptual branch from Git exactly on that point. But that’s just what I remember. Your right, I should have backed up my claims.

Mercurial has just the amount of complexity I’ve ever wanted. I’ve bettered my understanding of Git since I first wrote that post, and didn’t find any of its added functionality over Mercurial to ease my life. The less complexity I have to deal with, the better. Mercurial is more than enough for me.

Second, while I can agree that Mercurial has better documentation (but Git documentation has improved), and perhaps better UI (ditto), I think that Git has better base design, and that Mercurial seems simpler because it is simplified (see for example how tags and local named branches were stitched on to Mercurial).