I'm reserving judgement on HG but the comments saying it just works and is so easy gives me a good chuckle were I've had to set up all sorts that's non-obvious. topics not branches? cool ok. command not found, right uh enable extension 'topics =' yep sure obvious ok, Huh wired error now. oh pip install hg-evolve has topics in it fine ok.

go add a remote to an existing repo. lovely ux there.

and now you're telling me about bookmarks, I've a docs page open to read about phases, that seems kinda neat. at first glance thought it seems like a solved problem of protected branches and separate forks.