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by acdha 1961 days ago
Kind of — I started using Mercurial before using Git and found a number of things which were easier or only possible using Git. Using some of the plugins for things like rebase were the only time I've ever lost data in a version control system.

By the time they had addressed some of those gaps, almost all of the projects I used had moved to GitHub, which seemed to be far more of a driver than Linux.