2014/1/2 Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
(this is a genuine request for information, all I know is that hg wins
against git in googlefight: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1=hg&word2=git)

That's not really true http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=hg+dvcs&word2=git+dvcs