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Re: Why you should care about version control, and why I suggest git

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Originally Posted by Nadav Zingerman View Post
Could you elaborate? In my experience, Mercurial (AKA Hg) is pretty much the same as git when it comes to merging.

In general I think git has no advantage over Mercurial, the only difference being Mercurial is easier to use (Also, Mercurial is more space efficient than uncompressed git repo's, and compressing takes FOREVER).
I completely agree Mercurial is a lot better than Git. Though, I convinced my team to go with Git for multiple reasons:
  1. Tools for Git on Win/Mac/Linux are much more developed IMO
  2. Github's "Network Graph" is going to be invaluable. I couldn't find a easy way to do that with Mercurial
  3. Github provides a lot of support for beginners to Distributed Versioning (like many programmers on my team)
  4. Git was just more popular all around...

Though I agree Mercurial is my favorite.
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