Why Kiln is based on Mercurial, and not other (D)VCS

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What were the reason for chosing Mercurial as a basis of FogCreek Kiln, a source control management system with tightly integrated code review, and FogBugz integration?

Why Mercurial, and not other (distributed) version control system, like Bazaar, Git or Monotone, or creating own version control system like Fossil (distributed software configuration management, including bug tracking and wiki) did?

What were features that make FogCreek choose Mercurial as Kiln engine?

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When I looked at DVCS system I like Mercurial because.

  • The Mercurial developers seems to care about Microsoft Windows users.
  • The Mercurial developers do not thinks of Microsoft Windows users as being Unix users that are forced to use Windows.
  • Unlike a lot of open source developers, the Mercurial developers don't seem to hate Microsoft for making money.

Maybe the Kiln developers thought the same...
(All the main DVCS systems are good enough, otherwise other factors would come into play more)

This answer so now clearly out of date as Microsoft owns github and git is now in very common use on Windows.

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