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Mercurial was started almost at the same time as Git by Olivia Mackall, a kernel hacker at the time, motivated, just like Linus, by the BitKeeper and SourcePuller drama of spring 2005.

Perhaps ironically, the now open-source BitKeeper may meet many of the author’s criteria for a post-Git version control system, at least at first glance from the BitKeeper homepage.

https://www.bitkeeper.org/

That is indeed somewhat ironic. It does not seem particularly active, with the last and the last release more than 1 year ago.

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