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I quit using Mercurial around 1.4 and was happily surprised by all the improvements in 2.8 (shelve, bookmark improvements, etc.). Martin Geisler's reply was bot

• weaksauce 13y ago
  > Martin Geisler's reply was both thoughtful and respectful, a rare sight in this debate. I have seen this debate plenty of times but I'd hesitate to say that the overwhelming majority of times are hostile. I think the mercurial guys know that their tool is good with some flaws and that they know that the git tool is good with some flaws and that most other tools are not quite as good. The typical reaction that I have seen is I don't care which one you use if you are using git or hg or some other equally capable revision control scheme. I definitely agree that Mr. Geilser's response was well thought out and polite.