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The project bzr was trying to uproot may not be the one you’re thinking of. First release of Bzr predates git by about a month.

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Correct, and I used bzr quite a bit during that time. It was interesting in some ways, but Canonical pushed it for many years after git was obviously the better choice.

Even to this day there is a complex and archaic process of using Launchpad where git is tacked on because they stuck with Bazaar for so long.

Similarly upstart, from 2006, widely deployed before Redhat brought in systemd. And got dropped when Debian decided to go with systemd. Surprising how this gets misremembered given the hate systemd initially received.

I remember it well. At least Canonical also jumped on the systemd bandwagon when upstream (Debian) made a choice, instead of dragging upstart on, like it has done with countless other projects that are past their time (juju looking at you)

People also forget or don't realize that before systemd Redhat shipped and supported upstart in RHEL too.

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