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For one, Mercurial has branching as well. Although technically it was released 12 days later than Git, the motivation for both of them was that Linus Torvalds d

For one, Mercurial has branching as well. Although technically it was released 12 days later than Git, the motivation for both of them was that Linus Torvalds decided (for legal reasons) not to use BitKeeper for Linux kernel development and was in need for a replacement version control system. Besides Git, Mercurial and BitKeeper, there is also Monotone, which is also a DVCS.

stock_toaster 13y ago
and Darcs. Which is more "patch based". Never used it much, but it has been around for quite a while (march 2003). arch/tla/ArX was also an early one (2001? 2003?). I recall it was distributed and had branching.