Git vs Mercurial

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Git and Mercurial, both are used for the same purpose But why is Git preferred over Mercurial?
Sep 20, 2018 in Git & GitHub by Hannah
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I'm going to put down pros and cons of git and then you can decide for yourself

Pros:

Distributed version control system

Efficient branching and merging

Fast

Open source

Better than svn

Great command-line application

Simple

Free

Easy to use

Does not require server

Cons:

Hard to learn

Inconsistent command line interface

Addons have limitations

Overlay complicated

Git is slower on windows when compared to mercurial

answered Sep 20, 2018 by lina
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