git, mercurial, and bazaar were all released at pretty much the same time (within weeks of each other in March/April 2005). AFAIK all in response to the whole B

git, mercurial, and bazaar were all released at pretty much the same time (within weeks of each other in March/April 2005). AFAIK all in response to the whole Bitkeeper situation at the time. I don't think performance was the main motivator; from what I recall it was mostly that Linus felt that the subversion model was "completely broken" and that there weren't any good distributed "bitkeeper-like" tools out there (and then, suddenly, there were three).