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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:02PM (#26082957)
One advantage of mercurial is that it is less tied to a specific file format like git is. It is much easier to make a mercurial backend for a system which actually stores the code in a different way (for example a distributed data store).
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by Mindless2112 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:11PM (#26083075)
...or stores it in .git[1].

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GitExtension

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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by klodolph on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:43PM (#26083474)
Isn’t this also possible with Git, at least for remotes? There are a number of different Git implementations besides the main one.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by alexhutcheson on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:57PM (#26084980)
There are multiple implementations, but the contents of the .git directory are essentially the API, which tightly constrains how it can be implemented.
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