Glad it is still around. hg was the better experience as it had fewer command surface. But slower, and sometimes you need the extra detail commands to analyze the history.

I am glad the Hginit is back https://hginit.github.io/index.html

Not sure why it has to disappear in the first place.

What's going on with hginit.com now ?

I hung on to hg all the way until bitbucket forced migration to git. I still dislike git, but I dislike perforce much more.

I guess I just wanted to say I hate perforce lol

I just installed it on a Raspberry Pi (with an otherwise too-small-for-any-other purpose SSD) for use at home. I wanted something with low power consumption, and I didn't want to have a single point of failure by running it in a container alongside everything else.

The only hiccup was forgetting that when pushing via the SSH connection, it will have paths relative to the home directory of my hg user.

Git likely won because of GitHub; I abandoned Mercurial quite early when it was clear that it had lost. It was good, but I cannot imagine using it today.

IIRC Facebook switched to HG from SVN in the 2010s, one (main?) motivator being that the single repo was getting too big and svn’s only way was to start splitting it up. Which was against the philosophy of openness of the single repo. No idea what’s Meta doing now.

Mercurial is just better than Git. But GitHub won and so Git won.

Related: https://github.com/cloudstreet-dev/What-we-lost-when-Git-won

In my time with it, about ~20 years ago, it had a lot of nice features for instance hg came with a web server/interface out of the box.

I still wish bzr had had a better showing.