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Mercurial is simply too good (2020)
It has always bothered me how much our ways of being are based on copying and using what's popular, rather than learning and doing what a...
Git was built in a way that you would expect a man like Linus Torvalds would make version control system. The tool was so correctly designed, it didn't give way for something like github to be required for it to work. So there just simply was no real reason why you would need to spend money on a web host or forge for mercurial.
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