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berjin on Feb 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git branches are named sequences of commits

It's a shame Mercurial became a betamax since it's much more user friendly.

sinistersnare on Feb 28, 2023 | [–]

How does Mercurial differ in this way? I always figured mercurial was just a 'better UI', but using similar internals.

BeFlatXIII on March 1, 2023 | [–]

Much like Betamax, the technically superior option often fails in the market.

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