In response to your siblings, I think this use of git is delightful, and I don't want to take away from that. I love that people play with these tools.
As to Mercurial being better, I don't know but I doubt it.
My comment isn't even really directed at the appropriateness of DVCS specifically. It's just a general observation of using an acyclic tool to describe a network with cycles. We do that a lot, sometimes for play, sometimes for practicality, and sometimes because we just flip the fuckit bit. http://thechive.com/2009/11/11/there-i-fixed-it-23-photos/
As to Mercurial being better, I don't know but I doubt it.
My comment isn't even really directed at the appropriateness of DVCS specifically. It's just a general observation of using an acyclic tool to describe a network with cycles. We do that a lot, sometimes for play, sometimes for practicality, and sometimes because we just flip the fuckit bit. http://thechive.com/2009/11/11/there-i-fixed-it-23-photos/