Mercurial goes down in my list comparing to git

For a long time a valued Merurial not less, if not more, than git. Well, until I started to use it for more than just local tracking of files.

So, you have working copy changes, do hg pull/update which conflicts with them. You're told:

use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges

So you edit the file to resolve conflicts, then run

hg resolve hg.txt

Right? No, because you get very strange output:


merging foo.txt
warning: conflicts during merge.
merging foo.txt failed!


And see that all your careful edits are blown away and file is back to conflicted state. Now you read man, to find out that you need to use -m option to mark file as resolved.

The question is: how can someone design such a UI that not only requires additional option for the most common operation, but also by default silently clobber users changes, which may be result of an hour or so of work? They say that git's interface is not that good (I used to think that too). Just look around.