[3form]

I'm glad that I stuck to git for a similar reason; it won the war. And I understand the need for simpler tools.

But to offer a point I haven't heard from anyone before: at least I feel that I am done with it, I learned this tool sufficiently and I can move on with my life. From time to time I add something to my git toolbelt. I feel if Mercurial or anything else have won, I would maybe have to learn another tool in 5 years, whatever else got popular, and another in next 5 years. But now I have everything I need in git, and always have needed. I hold some hope in it that perhaps the learning curve was worth it.

[esafak]

Despite not using anything else, I don't know all the git commands I need to get my job done so I use UIs and my agent. It's just not intuitive enough, some things are just not possible to do right, and I look forward to ditching it.

[pif]

> some things are just not possible to do right

If git doesn't let you do them "right", your concept if "right" is wrong.

[MBCook]

That’s a great point I hadn’t thought of before.

I’m glad there is one clear winner and we’re not in the common position of having 2-3 relevant/semi-relevant choices that you’re frequently asked to switch between depending on which project you’re looking at at the moment.

Git is modern version control, whatever you think of it, and there’s a simplicity to that.