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> People wanted Git No. If Bitbucket competed with MercurialHub then MercurialHub would still have won and we’d all be much happier today.

• JimDabell 2y ago
  Bitbucket was your desired MercurialHub. They supported Mercurial first. Then they added Git support because people wanted Git. At that point, Bitbucket users could choose between Git and Mercurial. They chose Git, so much so that Bitbucket stopped supporting Mercurial. Look, I get that you hate Git, but people had the choice of using Mercurial or Git – on the same platform even – and they overwhelmingly chose Git. You claiming that Mercurial would win in a fair fight ignores the fact that that fight did actually happen and Mercurial lost.
  • forrestthewoods 2y ago
    You’re acting like the only different between GitHub and Bitbucket was the choice of VCS tool. That’s obviously not even remotely true. GitHub was a superior platform that was more pleasant to use than Bitbucket. The choice of Git had nothing to do with that. GitHub won. Not Git. IMHO.
    • JimDabell 2y ago
      The only difference between using Bitbucket with Mercurial and using Bitbucket with Git was the choice of VCS tool. And people chose Git. > If MercurialHub had been invented instead we’d all be using that This existed. We aren’t.
      • forrestthewoods 2y ago
        I used both. I disrespectfully disagree.