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3. Branding I think one of the big things as well that propelled Git to win was the fact that it was "made by the guy who does linux", easy to remember and lat

by genmud 5y ago

3. Branding I think one of the big things as well that propelled Git to win was the fact that it was "made by the guy who does linux", easy to remember and later GitHub/GitLab reinforced that branding. I was a huge mercurial fan, I was also a pretty heavy user of BitBucket (which at the time was only mercurial). It was always a mouthful to talk about mercurial or bazaar. Once people started jumping from google code in 2010-2012 to GitHub, the writing was on the wall for hg.

wink 5y ago
We may be both tainted by personal experience here, just from different sides. Back when the race was still close I actually used git and mercurial for about the same amount of time (main work stuff was still svn) and I found git to be superior in every way. That's why I'm cautious to attribute anything I noticed to either one winning. mercurial wasn't bad at all, but it was just a tiny bit worse than git for everything I tried.