Mercurial also has an easier learning curve; and while the "Everyday Git with 20 commands or so" is a very good document, and I've found it invaluable for getting started, if you compare it to the "Quick Start for the Impatient" page on the front page of the Mercurial Wiki, for many people Mercurial will *appear* to be an order of magitude simpler and is yet powerful enough for their project. Of course, a lot of it is that git *is* much more powerful, much like the difference between a stickshift with a racing clutch (git) and a car with an automatic transmission (hg). So maybe one thing that would help git would be a stronger emphasis of cogito for those projects that don't need the full power of using git "straight up". Just a thought.... - Ted - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html