Git came before Mercurial. Both git and Mercurial were spawned by the same event; BitKeeper revoking its free license for Linux kernel development.
Git development began 2005-04-03, and was self hosting on the 7th. The next minor release of Linux used git as its SCM. Mercurial was announced on 2005-04-19, and has been self hosting since 2005-05-03.
Git development began 2005-04-03, and was self hosting on the 7th. The next minor release of Linux used git as its SCM. Mercurial was announced on 2005-04-19, and has been self hosting since 2005-05-03.
Original git commit: https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
Original Mercurial commit: https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/9117c6561b0b