It came out two years after Git and Mercurial. Richard Hipp cites Monotone (which preceded both) as an early influence, and says he evaluated Git, Mercurial, an

It came out two years after Git and Mercurial. Richard Hipp cites Monotone (which preceded both) as an early influence, and says he evaluated Git, Mercurial, and Monotone before deciding to implement his own DVCS on top of SQLite in order to develop SQLite. https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/history.md https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/history.md