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Mercurial was announced on 2005-04-19 and git on 2005-04-07, so no Mercurial was not first. Edit: Monotone is older than git though.

• judk 13y ago
  I think we can state they weren't copying each other.
  • jeltz 13y ago
    Indeed, they both were developed separately as a reaction to the BitKeeper drama.
  • tonfa 13y ago
    I think both started on the same day (due to both authors being part of the kernel "kabal" and already in the known about the upcoming bk debacle). Mercurial was usable earlier though ;-) (the first git versions were really really low level, and did not include features like packs, while hg had high kevel command line and its compressed storage format from the first release)