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Or if Github had added Mercurial support at the same time Bitbucket added Git support (circa 2011?), I do believe that the playing field would be a lot more eve

Or if Github had added Mercurial support at the same time Bitbucket added Git support (circa 2011?), I do believe that the playing field would be a lot more even today than it actually is.

alblue 11y ago
Mercurial's storage format was broken from birth; it dealt with the concepts of individual files and history on them. Git's storage format was much more basic but more flexible, with the result that it was possible to implement the Git storage engine in different languages (cgit, jgit, libgit) as well as a minimal transfer protocol. http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/03/mercurial-and-git-technical-comparison.html http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/03/mercurial-and-git-technica...