> "I've really tried to 'get into' mercurial's mindset several times now, but never could, whereas, IMO, git's model is simple and powerful. " > > I find it hard to understand what this means

The git model can be, to a sufficient degree of completeness, be demonstrated with child toys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4

I can't even imagine how a similar demonstration would look like with Mercurial. It would probably involve having a bunch of such trees on the table, and super-glue instead of sticking things together.