Git versus Mercurial for .NET developers?

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Published on 2009-09-30T06:35:04Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 11:43 UTC
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I've been wondering what is the better DVCS for .NET developers? From reading various information it has sounded like Mercurial works better on Windows, but other information claims that Git has caught up and surpassed Mercurial in offering quality Windows and Visual Studio tools. Does anyone have good recent information or experience with trying both in a .NET development environment?

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