Git was already the scm of choice when Github selected it. It was faster than Mercurial (by far in some operations). At the time there was whygitisbetterthanx w

Git was already the scm of choice when Github selected it. It was faster than Mercurial (by far in some operations). At the time there was whygitisbetterthanx with benchmarks on various operations Edit: thanks webarchive https://web.archive.org/web/20081218003732/http://whygitisbetterthanx.com:80/#git-is-fast https://web.archive.org/web/20081218003732/http://whygitisbe...