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> I don't know why Git won the VCS contest Because GitHub offered free git hosting, and heroku came along and offered free hosting that was pretty much point a
by maccard 2y ago
> I don't know why Git won the VCS contest
Because GitHub offered free git hosting, and heroku came along and offered free hosting that was pretty much point and go.
Combined, you all of a sudden went from needing a sysadmin and two servers (this was pre containers), and the sysadmjn skills to operate SVN and your web app, to “it’s now free and it auto deploys when I commit”.
- crabbone 2y agoBitbucket offered free Mercurial hosting before GitHub even existed, if memory serves. And it's all but dead. And, I don't know if GitHub succeeded because of Git or the other way around.
- maccard 2y agoThis war was over around about the time I started, but my take on it is that it's all a bit intermixed and Mercurial lost because bitbucket caved and did git hosting [2], but git won beacuse of github and heroku [1][2] [1] https://www.koyeb.com/blog/herokus-free-tier-legacy-the-shoulders-we-stand-on-15-years-later https://www.koyeb.com/blog/herokus-free-tier-legacy-the-shou... [2] https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/ https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/
- pseudalopex 2y agoBitbucket and GitHub started around the same time. GitHub executed better. And the Ruby community adopted GitHub early. Comparisons around 2010 said GitHub's UX and network effects were top reasons to choose Git. Mercurial's UX and much better Windows support were top reasons to choose Mercurial.