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According to this blog post from 2010, Stack Exchange is using Mercurial for version control for the benefits of collaborative code development.

Why did you decide to use Mercurial over say, Git?

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    It probably had something to do with Fog Creek's Kiln being Mercurial-based.
    – Charles
    Sep 19, 2013 at 22:12
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    Maybe this wasn't true in the past, but Kiln appears to support Git as well as Mercurial now.
    – user200500
    Sep 19, 2013 at 22:14
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    Well, besides that, the initial dev team probably was more comfortable with hg than git due to that influence.
    – Charles
    Sep 19, 2013 at 22:15
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    Most likely because whoever had to decide was too drunk to choose Git. :p
    – ThiefMaster
    Sep 19, 2013 at 22:22
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    @ThiefMaster if they were drunk, they would have chosen TFS.
    – Cole Tobin
    Sep 19, 2013 at 22:24
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    Associated joel on software.
    – user213963
    Sep 20, 2013 at 4:03
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    @ColeJohnson there's drunk and there's drunk.
    – Oded
    Sep 20, 2013 at 9:04

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