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It's like with IDEs.

Eclipse has stuff like workspaces with multiple projects and others have simply projects. What to do with these workspaces?

Same goes with Git. Simple VCS have central repositories and a working copy. Git has multiple repositories and every one of them can have a working copy. Other VCS don't have a stage, you simply commit your changes directly into your repository.

It's not only that these tools have different commands and stuff like Mercurial or Subversion has easier commands etc. but they really have different concepts that need to be considered while working with these tools on a daily basis.

But you don't have to internalize them on your first week or month working with them. When you got your project in the System it's mostly save and if you don't have complex workflows you can still reap the benefits of VCS with Git without knowing everything.




I may have misunderstood you, but you do realize that Mercurial is also a DVCS like git, right?




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