This got spammed a lot but does anyone actually use it in the wild?
We have This and Sapling (mercurial) for alternative git.
Back in 2014 up til 2018 we used mercurial , development workflow is a lot smoother and better in DX wise vs git but soon after bitbucket decided to cut mercurial we have no choice but to use Git since there is literally no opensource or cloud service mercurial `hub` in existence.
What you need for your CVS to be popular is not having a new CVS that do a thing a little bit different and better vs Git but to have a good GitHub alternative. In Git world there we have Gitea - which is very easy to setup and experience is much better than github , and gitlab for bigger orgs. Plus a good IDE support.
Sapling and JJ need something like that - built in or selfhostable.
What you need for your CVS to be popular is not having a new CVS that do a thing a little bit different and better vs Git but to have a good GitHub alternative. In Git world there we have Gitea - which is very easy to setup and experience is much better than github , and gitlab for bigger orgs. Plus a good IDE support.
Sapling and JJ need something like that - built in or selfhostable.