Mercurial is probably the most popular alternative, although if git wasn’t so ubiquitous, I would spend some time trying out fossil. edit: I can’t remember whe

Mercurial is probably the most popular alternative, although if git wasn’t so ubiquitous, I would spend some time trying out fossil. edit: I can’t remember where, it was when I was researching fossil, but there are some good reads on why Linus created git and the history of VCSs.