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For me, it's:

1. The queues extension.

2. A bazillion other extensions.

3. The source code is pretty reasonable -- even mortal humans can contribute and write their own extensions.

I've found the queues extension to be really useful. It's like having multiple staging areas, which will later become multiple commits. I tend to change too many things, and then remember that I need to create specific commits. Queues makes that possible. I haven't found a good way of doing that in git, although I still use git every day without any big problems.

[Skinney]

git stash?

Actually, you can also just create a branch, commit your work (instead of hg qpush) and just use git rebase --interactive when you want to "finalize" your work.

[jordigh]

The exact same workflow works pretty much the same way in hg, with shelve (stash) and histedit (rebase -i). There is even a better way nowadays with hg evolve, but it's still beta.

[Skinney]

Hows the backup story with Hg nowadays? Git uses an immutable storage solution, so rebasing or other commands to alter history doesn't delete anything. Hg doesn't have the same architecture, so how does undoing histedit work? Genuinly interested, not trying to start a flamewar.