Why we chose Mercurial as our Decentralized Versioning System After having asked the community about which decentralized versioning system W3C should use, we made our DVCS platform operational a few months ago, powered by Mercurial. The obvious contender was Git — here are some of the reasons why we picked Mercurial over Git, in the hope that this analysis can be useful to others. Choosing a DVCS
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