> I don't know why Git won the VCS contest. Because Mercurial was dreadfully slow at the time for anything as big as the Linux kernel tree. Linus also put his

> I don't know why Git won the VCS contest. Because Mercurial was dreadfully slow at the time for anything as big as the Linux kernel tree. Linus also put his thumb on the scale because he was the author and still the primary maintainer of git at the time, so he could bend it to whatever shape he wanted without needing to ask anyone else. Not really a knock on Linus, I'd do the same in his position, but it does explain much of its advantage.