From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T22:29:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Why git instead of mercurial?

In article <44dddf400803250528w7beab342r3013ea8b789d8430@mail.gmail.com>,
John Wells  <lists@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>Well, I guess that was my point. From what I understand, git and
>mercurial are essentially feature-identical. In fact, the developer of
>mercurial spent some time working on git, wanted to change something
>that Linus disagreed with, and decided to go off and rewrite git.

I'm afraid that's not correct at all. After the BK debacle[1], Linus and Matt
Mackall decided independantly to write their own VCS. They are very similar
of course, both used many things from Monotone (use of hashes for example) but
some very different design decisions.

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[1] http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/paper.pdf
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- EEC/RIF/SEU -=-
Systems Engineering Unit