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Git won the war before GitHub existed. More projects were switching to git than hg. GitHub was then mirroring open source projects git repos without asking. (W

Git won the war before GitHub existed. More projects were switching to git than hg. GitHub was then mirroring open source projects git repos without asking. (Which I think is fine, but ruffled some feathers back then) GitHub could have easily been hghub, but they targeted git because it was already winning.

pseudalopex 8y ago
Git was more popular for C, Perl, and Ruby. Mercurial was more popular for Java and Python. It was far ahead on Windows. Google and Atlassian bet on Mercurial well after GitHub existed. The idea that only one could win would have been strange to a lot of people at the time.