What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git?

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Spoike picture Spoike · Aug 30, 2008 · Viewed 615.5k times · Source

I've been using git for some time now on Windows (with msysGit) and I like the idea of distributed source control. Just recently I've been looking at Mercurial (hg) and it looks interesting. However, I can't wrap my head around the differences between hg and git.

Has anyone made a side-by-side comparison between git and hg? I'm interested to know what differs hg and git without having to jump into a fanboy discussion.

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jfs picture jfs · Aug 30, 2008

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