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> What does Mercurial have over Git today?

Aside from what others have mentioned, the biggest thing for me personally is hg share, i.e. the ability to have two or more independent checkouts of the same repository. Git does not really support this. Your options are (1) git-new-workdir, which is not safe and can lose data and (2) doing a complete clone, which is cumbersome, because you can't directly diff/merge against branches in the other repository, but have to push/fetch first.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the strange people who (by preference) still uses Bazaar over Git and Mercurial whenever possible, so that may skew my preferences.



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