Which is more user friendly: TortoiseGIT or TortoiseHG?

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I have been experimenting with using Mercurial and TortoiseHG to track my work when I am working remotely (with a slow VPN I don't want to commit to SVN unless I have something that works).
I have found TortoiseHG a bit hard to use - or at least it often doesn't work the way I expect it to, so I am considering switching to GIT and TortoiseGIT. (For example I had problems rolling back source code to an earlier version and I still don't know what I did wrong)

My question whether they have a similar level of functionality / user friendliness or whether one is better than the other. What has your experience been?

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