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Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial

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AAnteru <newsgroups@catchall.shelter13.net>
Date
Sep 27, 2009, 18:10 UTC
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<200909272001.48180.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> You have to read carefully. This (or the mercurial list) may not be the
> most objective sources of information.
Sure, but at the moment, I'm advocating pro-git, so I'm biased as well :)
> Might be somewhat true, but msysgit works very well. Not sure how
> mercurial handles unicode issues. CRLF issues seems to be ignored (not handled).

Yeah, well, the main question here is actually: Is improved support for Windows one of the goals of future git development, or is this a complete non-issue?

Cheers,
  Anteru
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