[WorldMaker]

> Mercurial was never trying to "replace" git. All of these guys came out at the same time.

Mercurial even had a couple weeks' head start on git, and git partly happened trying to replace Mercurial in early experimentation. The name "git" was always an interesting self-deprecating choice because it was (intentionally) "stupider" than its competition that it knew about, which included Mercurial (and also darcs/Monotone/Bazaar).

[cmrdporcupine]

It's a bummer that Graydon didn't stick with monotone.