What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git?

Question

I've been using git for some time now on Windows (with msysGit) and I like the idea of distributed source control. Just recently I've been looking at Mercurial (hg) and it looks interesting. However, I can't wrap my head around the differences between hg and git.

Has anyone made a side-by-side comparison between git and hg? I'm interested to know what differs hg and git without having to jump into a fanboy discussion.

Answer

These articles may help:

Edit: Comparing Git and Mercurial to celebrities seems to be a trend. Here's one more:

How do I push a local Git branch to master branch in the remote?

Remove local git tags that are no longer on the remote repository