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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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