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by ksec 3427 days ago
Interesting M$ is moving to Git and the rest of the world is pretty much Github & alternatives while Facebook and Google are going with Mercurial. I actually liked Mercurial apart from its name being little hard to pronounce, but it doesn't seems to get used anywhere.

So are the DVCS converging to Git and Git only?
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jgalt212 3427 days ago
In the open source areana, it certainly seems like the game is over. But as others mentioned, both FB and GOOG are big Mercurial users and contributors.

Our shop uses Mercurial becuase of its Python basis and the amount of time and effort it takes to master Git makes me draw strong and uncomfortable parallels to emacs.

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stephenr 3427 days ago
> the rest of the world is pretty much Github & alternatives

By "the world" you mean, the HN/SV/startup crowd of cool-kids who feel the need to use whatever is popular without regard for how appropriate it is?

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