> 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.