What are the strengths of Mercurial for you?

[J.S. van Bethlehem]

Very simple. I wanted a VCS that allows me to work over HTTP, such that
I can control access to it myself using .htaccess. The only systems that
claim to be able to do that as a non-root user, are bzr and hg. I
started fiddling around with bzr initially, because of the big name
behind it, but found out that bzr still has (or at least had at the
time) many issues in this area. It took days to find this out and it
still didn't work.
Then I tried hg and after a few hours I had exactly what I wanted using
the very neat hgwebdir.cgi script. So for me the strength is: _it does
what it promises_. (even though after using hg for some time, I think
the documentation really needs attention; I find it extremely hard to
find things in all the info that is scattered around the wiki)

Yours sincerely,
Jakob

Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Since the "Promoting Mercurial" discussion lost focus quite quickly, I decided 
> to start this thread for getting it a bit more focussed. 
> 
> Please keep answers to one topic (else use a different subject): 
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> 	What are the strengths of Mercurial for you? 
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> If you can supply an example for this, please do so! 
> 
> Best wishes, 
> Arne
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