<p><pre><code>   Well yes, that&#x27;s the point! It would have never been the replacement for git because it&#x27;s the same paradigm.
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No, it really isn&#x27;t the point.  How can hg &quot;replace&quot; git, when they were be developed at roughly the same time for roughly the same purpose (replace bitkeeper, provide a DCS for open source work), with roughly the same model.<p>Git didn&#x27;t come up with the paradigm, and neither did hg.<p>git and hg were direct competitors, not different generations of revision control like the list given.