[klodolph]

I would say that if you care about good LFS support, that is a sufficient reason to use Mercurial. Harder to find Mercurial hosting these days, though, but I'm not worried that the Mercurial project will die off (since both Facebook and Google use it, in some manner).

[jfim]

Is Facebook still using mercurial? It seems that there was a blog post about it in 2014, but their repo[0] just seems to say that their codebase was originally based on/evolved from mercurial.

[0] https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden

[klodolph]

I think this is just really the demarcation problem. At what point does it stop being “Mercurial”?

[neandrake]

Losing Facebook as a contributor and community member is the larger loss, regardless of how much their internal vcs resembles or integrates with mercurial.