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I have to say I am fan of both Mercurial and Git particularly because I'm a crusty old developer who came from some god awful VCS/SCM like PVCS, CVS, RCS, Source safe. I remember first using Perforce for the first time and thinking dear god it is expensive but totally worth it (this was before git).

Really what I think needs improvement is better diff/merging interfaces. There really isn't platform independent one that is opensource and free.

Right now I use p4merge because it works fairly well on macOS but I still think it sucks (it doesn't have keybindings and yeah I have tried vim and emacs diff ... they are ok but not as easy to visualize diffing).



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