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Just for the historial record: Bitkeeper is much older than both git and Mercurial, hence Bitkeeper can not be said to have taken ideas from Mercurial. Both wa
by xorcist 8y ago
Just for the historial record: Bitkeeper is much older than both git and Mercurial, hence Bitkeeper can not be said to have taken ideas from Mercurial.
Both was sprung in large parts from Linus' description of what requirements he had in order to consider using a version control system for Linux.
- robaato 8y agoI think the comment meant that git took ideas from Mercurial rather than BK taking ideas from Mercurial.
- j16sdiz 8y agoGit start before mercurial.
- jlokier 8y agoYou're right. They were both released extremely close together, and I don't remember why I associate Mercurial ideas as being something Git learned from. Maybe I'm wrong about it.
- xorcist 8y agoMaybe you are thinking of Monotone. It shares some design, such as referencing commits by their hashes and zero copy branching. I think Linus said at some point that if only performance would have been sufficient for the Linux kernel, there would have been no git (but don't quote me on that).