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Why Github and not Bitbucket?

• selectnull 2y ago
  Maybe because Github was there first. BB was created as the GH clone, for mercurial repos.
  • konart 2y ago
    Both launched in 2008.
    • selectnull 2y ago
      Yes, both launched in 2008 and yet Github was launched first. According to this archived article[1], there is a quote saying: "It [BB] sports a feature-set much like Github." That is an indication of which one came first and was already a success story on the market and served as a blueprint for BB, which was made in its image with the difference of supporting mercurial, instead of git. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110317200833/http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoSuccessStoryBitbucket https://web.archive.org/web/20110317200833/http://code.djang... (edit) forgot the link to the article
• arp242 2y ago
  Because BitBucket is a GitHub clone itself (I'm not entirely sure if it started out as such, it very quickly turned in to one).