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I wish I lived in an alternate timeline where a delightfully unpronounceable service called HgHub had won the day instead. But on a more open-minded note, woul
by domador 3y ago
I wish I lived in an alternate timeline where a delightfully unpronounceable service called HgHub had won the day instead. But on a more open-minded note, would Github been just as successful if they had used something other than Git for the backend? Or was Git already popular enough that Github had essentially no other choice but to use it instead of another DVCS if they wanted to become the dominant player in their space?
- paradox460 3y agoWhen GitHub was the new kid on the block, it's competition was largely Google code and source forge. Google code was svn and git. Source forge was the same, but also had CVS.
- vidanay 3y agoIt was called "Kiln" and integrated beautifully with FogBugz (both from Fog Creek). We used them for nearly 10 years.
- halostatue 3y agoBitbucket was the original Mercurial hosting site. They only added git years later after it was clear that Mercurial had (at best) stalled, and removed Mercurial when it was clear that no one cared about it anymore.