Interesting, thanks for the info. I've only been using Git since 2009 or so. I love Git's model of commits being objects in their own right, allowing you to cherry-pick them across branches, or rebase them to reorder or squash several commits together, for example.
My usual development routine is to make a ton of small commits that add up to a small set of good commits, to promote bisect-ability. I do dozens of rebases, squashes and amends when working on a topic branch. I have to use Mercurial for one of my clients, and it's a nightmare doing my development model in an SCM where I can't toss commits around willy-nilly like I can in Git.
> I have to use Mercurial for one of my clients, and it's a nightmare doing my development model in an SCM where I can't toss commits around willy-nilly like I can in Git.
Yes you can. `hg histedit` is a lot like `git rebase -i`, and `hg rebase` is like `git rebase` without -i and `hg commit --amend` is a lot like `git commit --amend`.
There are also some really cool things that we're working on with hg:
My usual development routine is to make a ton of small commits that add up to a small set of good commits, to promote bisect-ability. I do dozens of rebases, squashes and amends when working on a topic branch. I have to use Mercurial for one of my clients, and it's a nightmare doing my development model in an SCM where I can't toss commits around willy-nilly like I can in Git.