[Izkata]

A little over a decade ago, with only svn experience, I tried both mercurial and git. There was something about how mercurial handled branches that I found extremely confusing (don't remember what), while git clicked immediately - even without reading the manual.

So at least for me, git was clearly better.

[ptx]

Mercurial later added bookmarks which work like Git branches. These make more sense to me as well.

[qsera]

Did bookmarks moved as you made commits, like a branch pointer in git does?

[ptx]

Yup: https://mercurial-scm.org/help/commands/bookmarks