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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: If GCC dropped Ada suport, how long would you use an old version for?
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DrPi <314@drpi.fr> writes:

>>...
>> A similar example; I was using monotone for a long time, because it
>> is a
>> better structured version control system (particularly for managing
>> merge conflicts). I'm now using git, because monotone finally failed to
>> build on a Debian system.
>> 
> Have you tried Mercurial ?

I looked at it. In my opinion, it's not sufficiently better than git to
merit bucking the trend. Using git, I can get help on any topic related
to git just by reading old stackoverflow posts. 

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-- Stephe