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in thread Thoughts on Git, Mercurial, Github, and Bitbucket.

It was a joke, but good point. However I would feel silly imitating another open source prject so closely. But hey, why not? It happens all the time.
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Re^5: Thoughts on Git, Mercurial, Github, and Bitbucket.
by tobyink (Canon) on Mar 27, 2012 at 17:09 UTC

    git and hg were both started within a couple of weeks of each other, in response to the free (lower-case "f") licences of BitKeeper being withdrawn. Neither is really an imitation of the other; any similarity is probably mostly down to the system they were both designed to replace.

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'