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Do git and mercurial users get into flamewars? I would assume they are pretty well united in their hatred of centralised verion control systems.



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Yes, but it's extremely silly since most hg users are also git users, not of their own choosing, since many popular OSS projects are hosted at GitHub.

There's a "winner take all" rally amoung certain git fans, whom have lost their sense of history, equating popularity with quality. Ironic, since the creater of git should have just switched to Windows in the '90s, because it "won already".




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