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I'd argue that GitHub became really good 2010-01. It takes a certain number of early adopters to group together before the social features finally become useful
by shantanubala 14y ago
I'd argue that GitHub became really good 2010-01. It takes a certain number of early adopters to group together before the social features finally become useful for everyone.
- wyuenho 14y agoThat also happened to be the time when people REALLY wanted to use DVCS but Google Code lacks private repo ability and BitBucket was also getting really unstable. BitBucket was far more stable than Github the years prior to 2010. Mercurial also had a whole lot more GUIs to choose from and worked great on Windows. For the longest time Github just wouldn't send a tar ball when you clicked the download button. And then around 2010, BitBucket was doing a lot of stuff behind the scene and the service was down a lot. A lot of basic features just wouldn't work. They were probably getting ready to sell to Atlassian. I think that's the main #1 reason Git and Github took off. Another one is Linus' diatribe on SVN. That video on youtube's been viewed millions of times. The video really got the Linux fanboys jumping around all excited even though its command line interface sucks and didn't work quite well on Windows.