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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by xorcist on Monday April 29, 2019 @12:03PM (#19779580)
Just for the historial record: Bitkeeper is much older than both git and Mercurial, hence Bitkeeper can not be said to have taken ideas from Mercurial.

Both was sprung in large parts from Linus' description of what requirements he had in order to consider using a version control system for Linux.

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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by robaato on Monday April 29, 2019 @12:34PM (#19779893)
I think the comment meant that git took ideas from Mercurial rather than BK taking ideas from Mercurial.
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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by j16sdiz on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:23PM (#19780436)
Git start before mercurial.
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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by jlokier on Monday April 29, 2019 @02:46PM (#19781332)
You're right.

They were both released extremely close together, and I don't remember why I associate Mercurial ideas as being something Git learned from. Maybe I'm wrong about it.

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Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu... by xorcist on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:54PM (#19781992)
Maybe you are thinking of Monotone. It shares some design, such as referencing commits by their hashes and zero copy branching.

I think Linus said at some point that if only performance would have been sufficient for the Linux kernel, there would have been no git (but don't quote me on that).

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