Best distributed version control system?

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Published on 2010-04-18T03:25:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 3:33 UTC
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I have been using SourceSafe and Subversion for years, but recently decided to choose a distributed version control system (or decentralized source control management) like Git, Mercurial or Bazaar or any other thing. So what is best of them?

I'm a Windows/Visual Studio user.

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