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by drKarl 5076 days ago
Well, Git or Mercurial are equally powerful and both are DVCS (Distributed) which SVN is not. If anything, mercurial is said to be easier to learn if you already know SVN, but both are similar. Git use UNIX philosophy of many complementing tools whereas Mercurial uses a monolithic approach, a single unified powerful tool.