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Re:Git vs Mercurial: Google Code Analysis by drawkbox on Friday April 24, 2009 @07:27PM (#578357)
I think the #1 reason is that like they mention git is a second class citizen on Windows. If git was more integrated with windows they probably would have chosen it.

I like git, Mercurial, Bazaar but my favorite recently is Mercurial. Both Python and Google Code switching to Mercurial. The funny thing is Mercurial might win because of this. Google code played a huge role in SVN becoming so popular.

Both Mercurial and Bazaar are Python based. Git is C based and written really for *nix in mind only.

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Re:Git vs Mercurial: Google Code Analysis by masklinn on Saturday April 25, 2009 @01:12PM (#579052)
> I think the #1 reason is that like they mention git is a second class citizen on Windows.

And the second reason is that git is downright slow over HTTP, and google code's built around using HTTP.

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