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lucian1900

Interesting that Graydon Hoare [1], Rust's (initial) creator is one of the core developers.

Graydon also created monotone, which was a big influence on git.

http://www.monotone.ca/monotone.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_%28software%29#Monoto...

I think Monotone was an alternative to BitKeeper and BitKeeper was the inspiration of Git and Mercurial. It even seems to suggest that in the link you posted.

Linus played with Monotone before he started git (and it shows)

He is even credited in the changelog: http://lwn.net/Articles/131744/

BitKeeper not being available anymore was the impetus for starting Git and Mercurial (as replacements for BK), but many of the concepts in Git and Hg come from Monotone, most importantly the use of merkle trees (according to /u/ggherdov Matt Mackall[0] recently mentioned this explicitly on IRC). Linus also mentioned Monotone by name as "the most viable alternative" before starting/publishing git[1] and as pgeorgi noted contributed to the same.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31yi7d/graydon...

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121

He also did a little write-up around this stuff:

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/201698.html

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