The fact that the average HN'er seems to be completely unwilling to even consider using a tool different than git is rather depressing. While I understand that git does have some impressive features that Mercurial does not, most of them are somewhat esoteric, and I certainly doubt that they are enough of a motivation to justify this viewpoint that git has already won and that Mercurial is a pile of trash.

"The more I use git, the more I realize that everyone enamored with it has a severe case of Stockholm syndrome." -- Matt Might [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/#!/mattmight/status/161495662033248256