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I'm pretty sure the head Mercurial developer was subscribed to the Git mailing list and decided to build his own DVCS when he saw Git wasn't heading in the dire

I'm pretty sure the head Mercurial developer was subscribed to the Git mailing list and decided to build his own DVCS when he saw Git wasn't heading in the direction he wanted. Mercurial might have been released earlier, but it was definitely a reaction to Git rather than convergent evolution.

wcoenen 16y ago
As I understand it, Mercurial development was started as a reaction to this mail where Torvalds states that the kernel team is looking for Bitkeeper alternatives: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121 Git didn't exist yet at that point.