Which is more suitable on Windows, git or mercurial?

I actually use a combination of OS X, Linux and Windows, but Wind开发者_如何学Pythonows is the most important.

Git was initially designed without much regard for use on Windows. Mercurial was built to be multi-platform from the start. This gave Mercurial an edge over Git on Windows, but as far as I've heard, the difference is mostly or completely gone and you might consider other criteria to base your choice on.

FWIW, I haven't seen any problems using Mercurial on GNU/Linux and WinXP.

Both work for me, but I use Win2K. One thing I have noticed is that the very latest version of Mercurial (1.5) is NOT supported on Win2K, and in fact will not install. The 1.4 relase works fine. This has kind of put me off using Mercurial at all, as it really is not on to drop support for an OS at a minor release, without any explanation.