[simias]

I'm in the same boat (I use git a lot at work because I work with the linux kernel but I prefer Mercurial for my own projects) but I feel the thing that may end up killing mercurial is git's superior branch support.

For local dev branches mercurial patch queues work great but working with multiple remote branches becomes a bit of a head ache. Generally you end up using several repositories instead of branches within the same repository.

That being said that was the state of the art a few years ago and I haven't followed Mercurial development closely so maybe it's not the recommended way of dealing with that anymore. Is there a way to properly delete a branch in mercurial these days?

Git branches is the only thing I could imagine a git user miss when switching to mercurial. And possibly staging, it's sometimes convenient (but can be emulated using extensions).