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People could have kept using SVN or whatever else. They jumped ship in droves, way before GitHub. At the time it was the only distributed and open source VCS.
by mr_toad 3y ago
People could have kept using SVN or whatever else. They jumped ship in droves, way before GitHub.
At the time it was the only distributed and open source VCS. Fossil may have come quickly on its heels, but it was already too late.
- fragmede 3y agoMercurial (hg) was released mere weeks after git saw the light of day, so it's not that.
- eru 3y agoAnd others were released before git: > The first open-source DVCS systems included Arch, Monotone, and Darcs. However, open source DVCSs were never very popular until the release of Git and Mercurial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control#Hi...