Vernooij: Bazaar-NG: 7 years of hacking on a distributed version control system

I was using Mercurial for < 1 hour and hit a (what I consider to be) data-loss bug[1]. Granted, I didn't really read a proper hg tutorial, but the bug is still basically untouched even with a testcase and is marked as a bug because I used hg "wrong". My biggest problems with it are[2]:

- no index (this is the real killer for me using it day-to-day); and
- there wasn't anything that did git rebase -i nearly as easy last time I tried (which I use often, but could probably be get used to missing if there was painless merge resolution (see git mergetool) and something like git rerere).

I understand git being a little steep at first (but so is Vim, emacs, etc.). Understanding how git views things is a core part of groking it enough to be proficient with it. Basically, I don't care as much about the learning curve of tools I use every day, I just require them to let me get my work done. "Intuitiveness" is useless to me. I'd rather it work and work well. If I used Mercurial every day, with the way I've gotten accustomed to working, I'd probably hit that bug at least once a week.

[1]http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3423
[2]Technically, "were" since I'll be using something to convert any Mercurial repository I use over to git first. The verbiage change just doesn't work well with me.