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It dominated the world because GitHub was better than BitBucket and had more generous free levels. If only that wasn’t the case we’d all be using a sensible so
by kasey_junk 4y ago
It dominated the world because GitHub was better than BitBucket and had more generous free levels.
If only that wasn’t the case we’d all be using a sensible source control system now instead of one where people repeatedly say things like “if you just learn the underlying model…”
- samwillis 4y ago> GitHub was better than BitBucket and had more generous free levels GitHub for many years only had free public repos, not privet, BitBuckets USP was that you could have privet repositories for free. GitHub "won" because of the social aspect around it and the tooling for open source projects - it never had more generous free levels.
- kasey_junk 4y agoBitBucket limited the number of repos you could have while GitHub allowed you to have as many as you wanted so long as they were public. Which had the (intended?) effect of making it more useful socially.
- carapace 4y agoIt's not even an anecdote but, uh, I prefered hg to git until the day I tried to use it on a system with the wrong Python installed... (I like Python! But it's a scripting language, not a systems language. Also the "deployment story" is bananas.)