Several comments note that there were no good alternatives. While Git was picking up, there was not only Mercurial mentioned by a few others here, but also Can

Several comments note that there were no good alternatives. While Git was picking up, there was not only Mercurial mentioned by a few others here, but also Canonical Bazaar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bazaar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bazaar I had personally found Canonical Bazaar to be better. It lacked behind Git in performance though, which they improved upon shortly. But perhaps it was too late by then.