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Any significant reasons on why bitbucket is so behind github? I mean, "open source projects are in github" might be an answer but my question is "why are open s
by sebkomianos 14y ago
Any significant reasons on why bitbucket is so behind github? I mean, "open source projects are in github" might be an answer but my question is "why are open source projects in github and not in bitbucket?".
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoI think it's fair to say that GitHub grabbed the lead because it was at the time much better than the competition. Now that they are the incumbent, network effect is going to win out for a long time.
- TillE 14y agoBitBucket only supported Mercurial for a long time. That's fine with me, but if you prefer Git, it wasn't an option.
- kmfrk 14y agoI think that was what put me off at first. I think git was just more popular around the time I looked into using a VCS.