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faq: mercurial vs. git

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Fixes #4052.

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for more information about how to proceed.
</p>
<h3 id="Why_does_the_project_use_Mercurial_and_not_git">
Why does the project use Mercurial and not git?</h3>
<p>
The Go project, hosted by Google Code at
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/go">code.google.com/p/go</a>,
uses Mercurial as its version control system.
When the project launched,
Google Code supported only Subversion and Mercurial.
Mercurial was a better choice because of its plugin mechanism
that allowed us to create the "codereview" plugin to connect
the project to the excellent code review tools at
<a href="http://codereview.appspot.com">codereview.appspot.com</a>.
</p>
<p>
Programmers who work
with the Go project's source rather than release downloads sometimes
ask for the project to switch to git.
That would be possible, but it would be a lot of work and
would also require reimplementing the codereview plugin.
Given that Mercurial works today, with code review support,
combined with the Go project's mostly linear, non-branching use of
version control, a switch to git doesn't seem worthwhile.
</p>
<h2 id="Pointers">Pointers and Allocation</h2>
<h3 id="pass_by_value">