I'm really surprised by the "git won" mentality that manifests in any discussion of mercurial as of late. It makes no sense. We don't decare "winners" with other tools we use. Do we?
Why are we all playing with new programming languages when C won? Or maybe C++ won? Or Java? Did emacs or vim win? Speaking of text, did ASCII win? Which code review tool won? How about continuous integration tools? or build tools? I mean, make won, right?
None of us just pick the most widely used tool or programming language and say, "there can only be one" and then stop trying new things. Why are we doing this with version control?
Why are we all playing with new programming languages when C won? Or maybe C++ won? Or Java? Did emacs or vim win? Speaking of text, did ASCII win? Which code review tool won? How about continuous integration tools? or build tools? I mean, make won, right?
None of us just pick the most widely used tool or programming language and say, "there can only be one" and then stop trying new things. Why are we doing this with version control?