Git uses git status
, Mercurial uses hg status
.
What does the hg
stand for? I have thoroughly searched for it, to no avail.
Hg
is the chemical symbol for Mercury, element # 80 in the periodic table:
The symbol comes from Hydragyrum
, the name for the substance using Greek roots, meaning (roughly) "silver water" (another name for Mercury was quicksilver).