He doesn't seem to be claiming that Git is more revolutionary than Mercurial/Bazaar/&c. as a VCS.
I think it's fair to say that Git makes it easier to build some system other than a VCS from it, since all of the low-level commands for directly manipulating the repository are exposed in the shell. Contrast that with Mercurial, which doesn't even have a Python API.
(For the record, I have actually built such a system on top of hg, and I'm pretty familiar with git.)
I think it's fair to say that Git makes it easier to build some system other than a VCS from it, since all of the low-level commands for directly manipulating the repository are exposed in the shell. Contrast that with Mercurial, which doesn't even have a Python API.
(For the record, I have actually built such a system on top of hg, and I'm pretty familiar with git.)