> Has Linus ever said why he disregarded Darcs and the other OSS options (wasn't Mercurial already starting to get somewhere at that time?).
I think you might be thinking of Monotone here. Mercurial was started some days after git.
EDIT: Wikipedia has some info about what Linus thought of Monotone. The key problem with it was performance. I have no idea to what degree they have been fixed today.
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> Has Linus ever said why he disregarded Darcs and the other OSS options (wasn't Mercurial already starting to get somewhere at that time?).
I think you might be thinking of Monotone here. Mercurial was started some days after git.
EDIT: Wikipedia has some info about what Linus thought of Monotone. The key problem with it was performance. I have no idea to what degree they have been fixed today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_%28software%29#Monoto...
You are probably right there, I think I have mixed up Monotone and Mercurial in my chronology.