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Mercurial

Distributed version control system, an alternative to Git.

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Distributed VCS known for consistent commands and good scalability, used in large codebases.

When to use

When the project already uses Mercurial or you value a more regular command interface.

When to avoid

In new projects: Git has far more tooling and hosting.

Alternatives

They do a similar job. Compare before choosing.

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