> Then came git. Not quite. Then came Mercurial, which preceded git. Mercurial has the distributed VCS features of git but with a sane UI. And because it's jus

> Then came git. Not quite. Then came Mercurial, which preceded git. Mercurial has the distributed VCS features of git but with a sane UI. And because it's just a Python program it runs anywhere. I think Mercurial lost because Linus either didn't know about it or didn't like it and wrote git in response to the Bitkeeper scandal. Then github came along and didn't support Mercurial, and that sealed Mercurial's fate.