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Re:Where are my Git UI features from the future? by Beltalowda on Sunday January 08, 2023 @02:51PM (#34302427)
git, mercurial, and bazaar were all released at pretty much the same time (within weeks of each other in March/April 2005). AFAIK all in response to the whole Bitkeeper situation at the time.

I don't think performance was the main motivator; from what I recall it was mostly that Linus felt that the subversion model was "completely broken" and that there weren't any good distributed "bitkeeper-like" tools out there (and then, suddenly, there were three).

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Re:Where are my Git UI features from the future? by murderfs on Sunday January 08, 2023 @02:56PM (#34302459)
Linus was looking at monotone as an alternative to BitKeeper, but in his words "performance was so horrendously bad that [he] tried it for a day and realized [he] cannot use it": https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=711
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