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crdoconnor on May 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git 2.0

They're essentially identical. Mercurial just has slightly easier to understand syntax and and a cultural bias against rebasing.

anton_gogolev on May 29, 2014 [–]

Nope. Mercurial devs rebase heavily during Mercurial development, for instance. It's Changeset Evolution [1] that makes history rewriting _safe_.

[1]: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

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