What are the strengths of Mercurial for you?

[Paul Moore]

2009/1/8 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>:
> 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):
>
>
>        What are the strengths of Mercurial for you?

1. Fast, without limiting how I work (as opposed to Bazaar, for
example, which requires me to put all my branches under a shared
repository if I'm to get fast cloning).
2. Solid Windows support (from the command line - I understand
TortoiseHg is good, but I don't use it myself).
3. Just works the way I expect - very few surprises.
4. Core is extremely stable but there's lots of interesting
developments as extensions.

FWIW, (1) is the key one that makes me prefer Mercurial over Bazaar
(combined with 3 and 4 as far as repo formats are concerned), and (2)
is the key one that makes me prefer Mercurial over Git.

Paul.