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Do people use git alternatives? (self.ask_experienced_devs)
submitted 1 year ago by druge to c/ask_experienced_devs
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I know other version control software exists, but does anyone use it? Why? What are the differences? All I've ever actually seen people use is git.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is only one alternative for distributed version control, Mercurial. Everything else is significantly inferior, except maybe for special cases. Mercurial may be fine for newcomers to step in, but probably at some point the flexibility of Git will be missed. And because of so many people using Git there are more solutions to specific problems.

[โ€“] oleid 2 points 1 year ago

Everything else is significantly inferior

Which ones did you try?