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Re:Git 2.0 by joeblau on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:44PM (#7814589)
Not even Mercurial :) Haha j/k I actually don't mind Mercurial, but I'd still rather work with git.
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Re:Git 2.0 by crdoconnor on Thursday May 29, 2014 @02:16AM (#7814992)
They're essentially identical. Mercurial just has slightly easier to understand syntax and and a cultural bias against rebasing.
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Re:Git 2.0 by anton_gogolev on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:00AM (#7815092)
Nope. Mercurial devs rebase heavily during Mercurial development, for instance. It's Changeset Evolution [1] that makes history rewriting _safe_.

[1]: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

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