It&#x27;s astonishing to me that Git has won out given how much easier it&#x27;s been for me to explain Hg to other people than to explain Git. To this day, in our SVN workflow at my company, nontechnical people who have merely seen a Hg diagram on a whiteboard by my desk immediately grasped the idea and the lingo, and ask me questions like &quot;hey, can you <i>branch</i> the code to <i>commit</i> those changes and <i>push</i> them to the testing server? This thing&#x27;s really cool and we don&#x27;t mind playing with the alpha version, but we might scrap it all later.&quot;