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May I ask why you think it's worth doing all this work, especially now that Git has - clearly - won. How do you motivate yourself to keep working on mercurial and at what point do you cut your losses short?

I assume you're not getting paid for it, so besides bragging rights or a nice CV entry, what else is there for you to look towards?

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Git is horrible to use. Few people like it, most only tolerate it. Regardless of how you feel about git, there's plenty of literature regarding how awful the git user experience is.

Mercurial's greater modularity also has made it easier to implement improvements for monorepos, although personally that's less important to me.

That's why I still use and work on Mercurial.

Highly subjective I would say.

Git is not horrible to use. And even before I was a proficient Git user, mercurial was giving a team of 5 people a lot of work trying to fix stuff that just works on Git.

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