Is there any feature in mercurial that git doesn't have? Is there some plugin to allow mercurial users keep using the client with a git remote repository (like the one for using git with svn)?
2) hg-git exists, and there's other things afoot that should be better
I use hg-git to put all my Mercurial based projects on Github.
But the last OpenSUSE update installed Mercurial 5, but left the old hg-git for Mercurial 4. Now it does not work anymore.
I used to use it all the time on linux.
Unfortunately the OpenSUSE update also removed it. Completely, it is not even listed in the package management anymore.
No one wants to maintain non-mainstream software
...and I just found it: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
From HG's own documentation (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ChangesetEvolution):
>While well on the way, the full implementation of the changeset evolution concept is still in progress.
HG's entire system requires far more investment in the tool than git will ever ask of you. And you probably don't need the feature in the first place. I consider changeset evolution a nifty feature, but it's also a devop smell in my book.
Evolution requires no effort whatsoever to maintain.
As far as smells go, its whole purpose is to make editing history less "smelly" than git's rebase -i followed by force push.
You are not a full blown development team, and beta software works for many people. That doesn't mean it's ready for prime time.