@inthehands to me hg is basically just "svn with push and pull" and i love svn
pull and update are separate verbs and this is so important to me. mercurial seems to give you verbs for actually interacting with & reshaping the tree whereas all git wants to do is interact with your current source checkout and lots of tree operations seem to require making the branch you want to operate on your current source checkout. It feels unnecessary. (also: git often requires you to make a named branch)