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Git start before mercurial.

• jlokier 8y ago
  You'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 ago
    Maybe 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).