Mercurial and Git have, for most purposes, functionally identical capabilities. Atlassian at one point allowed you to checkout a project as either a git or a mercurial repo painlessly.
Mercurial's porcelain makes sense: the command is exactly what you think it is, usually without any funky modifying flags. If there are flags, they're often obvious, and if they're not, hg help <command> will clear that right up.
Contrast to git, which is a mishmash of commands and esoteric flags, and the help isn't even inlined.
The underlying concepts are easy enough, but how you access them requires memorization of arbitrary command sets that are inconsistent and overloaded.
Fix the porcelain and IMO you fix most of the problems with Git.
Mercurial and Git have, for most purposes, functionally identical capabilities. Atlassian at one point allowed you to checkout a project as either a git or a mercurial repo painlessly.
Mercurial's porcelain makes sense: the command is exactly what you think it is, usually without any funky modifying flags. If there are flags, they're often obvious, and if they're not, hg help <command> will clear that right up.
Contrast to git, which is a mishmash of commands and esoteric flags, and the help isn't even inlined.
The underlying concepts are easy enough, but how you access them requires memorization of arbitrary command sets that are inconsistent and overloaded.
Fix the porcelain and IMO you fix most of the problems with Git.