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GitHub had a business model where public repos were free. BitBucket didn’t. That’s it. That’s why git won, you could put up open source libs with one for free
by kasey_junk 6mo ago
GitHub had a business model where public repos were free. BitBucket didn’t.
That’s it. That’s why git won, you could put up open source libs with one for free and not the other.
Which is extra funny as the centralized service was the most important part of decentralized version control.
- seniorThrowaway 6mo ago>the centralized service was the most important part of decentralized version control. I've often thought this about github
- awesome_dude 6mo agoApologies for the late reply - but I just saw this and immediately thought So git /did/ have something better than Mercurial after all, it was a 3rd party, but it still meant that it was massively better than Mercurial.