From: Matt Mackall Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:29:51 GMT Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Message-ID: <20050628232951.GW12006@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <4846.10.10.10.24.1119999568.squirrel@linux1> 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. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.