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>I distinctly remember everyone throwing their weight behind Mercurial

Except for nearly every single open source project.

>Mercurial, in large part for its superior cross-platform support.

And then that got side stepped by the obvious problems with repository size and branching issues (that hg would go onto address later).

>I stand by my position.

If you want to ignore a pretty basic historical timeline that's totally up to you.



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