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by henryprecheur 5596 days ago
> I'd be interested to know what the "core developers" disliked about Git too.

I spoke to Brett Cannon --basically the guy who chose Mercurial-- not long after the choice was made. Apparently the most important factor was that Mercurial was the favorite choice in the Python community. That's probably because Mercurial is written in Python, and was used by a lot of Python projects.

Also Git didn't work very well under Windows at the time if I remember correctly.

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> Also Git didn't work very well under Windows at the time if I remember correctly.

Yep, Windows wasn't well supported so it was a pain to setup, and it was very very slow.