Matt Mackall had been working on hg for a couple of weeks prior to the public announcement This means that both projects started at almost the same time. I believe that Matt actually privately showed Linus hg before he made a public announcement, but maybe I am mistaken about this story.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.2/0670.html
Matt Mackall had been working on hg for a couple of weeks prior to the public announcement This means that both projects started at almost the same time. I believe that Matt actually privately showed Linus hg before he made a public announcement, but maybe I am mistaken about this story.