[Izkata]

For some people. Back when I only knew how to use subversion, I tried out both git and mercurial, and found mercurial confusing while git clicked immediately.

Unfortunately it's been long enough I don't remember details why, just that it was something with how it handled branches.

[capitainenemo]

Mercurial has both "real" branches (history is kept so you can always tell what revisions were in what branch) as well as git "branch is just a pointer tag"

So really you can choose whatever suits your needs.

Personally the things I love about mercurial are:

    more consistent commandline (that's the simple part others bring up)
    revsets (awesome query language for revisions, there's also filesets, but I don't use that as much)
    absorb  (I think someone added a git extension that does something similar a few months ago)
    fa --deleted 
    grep --all  
    phases ♥