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There's definitely an argument that GitHub is one of the primary reasons that Git beat Mercurial.
by richardwhiuk 6y ago
There's definitely an argument that GitHub is one of the primary reasons that Git beat Mercurial.
- ajsnigrutin 6y agoYep! "One click" fork + "one click" pull request are its killer features.
- dkersten 6y agoAnecdotally, I started using git because of projects on Github I wanted to contribute to. A number of others I know where in a similar boat. Before that, we used subversion, bazaar or mercurial. I personally am happy with having been pushed to using git and if it was winning anyway (not clear) I'm sure I would have eventually ended there anyway, but GitHub is the reason I started using it when I did.
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- jhasse 6y agoI've used Mercurial. It sucks compared to Git. And not because I can't use it on GitHub.
- richardwhiuk 6y agoIt's tricky to compare them now, because Git won, it's got a lot more investment. Ideally you'd need to care them just before Git got the upper hand - but that's hard to pinpoint.