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Comment by xnorswap

It's missing what's sadly the only important difference:

  Git: Used by everyone else
  Fossil: Not used by everyone else

Everything else is kind of irrelevant. Git is hard to use and awkward to master, but you need to do so anyone to work with everyone else.

I wish it wasn't the case, but network effects are really important. Mercurial was a better DVCS launched around the same time as git but it lost out, not because "worse is better" but the network effects spreading out from the of the linux kernel itself.

parent xnorswap 9 months ago

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