Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 21:44:50 EST


On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:59:28PM -0400, Sean wrote:
> Afterall, Mecurial just took the basic ideas from Linus' and adapted
> them to a different back end.

??!

Just for the record, Mercurial had working distributed merge before
Git had any sort of merge at all. So it's hardly a case of me copying
git.

Linus and I both freely borrowed ideas from Monotone and others and
thus there is some rough similarity between the two.

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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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