What are the strengths of Mercurial for you?

[Isaac Jurado]

My personal experience.  I was a happy SVN user and then, incidentally,
found a post about the BitKeeper controversy so.  Not remembering
exactly how, I ended up installing and trying Mercurial.

It took me one evening to get comfortable with it.  About a month to
better understand its distributed nature.

Then I tried git, but after two days of being stuck with the index
concept I gave it out.  An average control of git required me to try
three more cycles of trial and abandonment (spread in about six months).
But I must confess that understanding Mercurial has helped me to
understand git, and vice versa.  Now I have a better idea about where
Mercurial is stronger and weaker.

Apart from that, I've managed to set up the hgweb in a very restricted
hosting service.  I'm not very convinced about achieving the same with
git.

Balance:

    * The best
        - Straightforward (simplicity is also a feature nowadays).
        - The lack of repository maintenance (compared to git).
        - The template engine.


    * The worst
        - Global tags suck.

Cheers.

-- 
Isaac Jurado
http://www.krenel.net

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding"
Leonardo da Vinci