Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: Sergiu Dotenco (sergiu.dotenco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-19 14:24:25

On 3/19/2012 6:15 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> 
> on Mon Mar 19 2012, Daryle Walker <darylew-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Git has a competitor called Mercurial?  If we're moving to a
>> Distributed-VCS, should we go to Mercurial instead of Git?  
> 
> IMO, no.  There are several reasons, but the main one is that Git is
> winning in the marketplace.
> 

What reasons exactly? "Git is the most powerful versioning system
today", "is increasingly popular", "Git has built-in support for more
advanced features", "is more popular in the open-source world", "Git is
winning in the marketplace"? Sounds more like a propaganda, which isn't
even convincing.