git 1.6 compared to hg 1.1 ?

[David Soria Parra]

> 
> I'm not aware of any recent speed benchmarks, but I have to say that I
> completely agree with Arne here.
> 
> Git has a few interesting features, like the ability to host multiple local
> branches in the same repository, and the ability to selectively push some
> of the local branches to a parent repository.  Mercurial is a bit lacking
> in this respect.
As long as it is just local, you can use bookmarks use the 
file:///path/to#bookmark syntax to pull/push specific local branches. 
But for sure the name itself is lost on the other site.