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by beevai142 2962 days ago
> Mercurial?

It's not.

The basic feature set is pretty much the same, and requires similar effort to grok. Some things are much harder to do in Mercurial, and some things are just confusing (multiple heads, pushing branches, multiple branching models, the "tip", etc.). Online platforms are worse (Bitbucket vs Github) in practice.