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nas on March 18, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby

Yet git doesn't remember those things either and can still merge as well as hg (arguably better in some rename cases). What was his point again?

statictype on March 19, 2010 [–]

I thought his point was quite clear: Mercurial (and distributed vcs in general) make it easier to merge changes than svn.

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