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>My suspicion is that open source projects tend towards Git because of GitHub but I think a lot of companies who don't have the option of external code hosting

>My suspicion is that open source projects tend towards Git because of GitHub but I think a lot of companies who don't have the option of external code hosting lean towards Mercurial. GitHub is a consequence not the cause (ponder for a moment why there is no MercurialHub...) It is about ability to choose best source control tool for multi-versioned distributed concurrent development. Open source devs have such choice while corporate ones - no. FB choosing Mercurial tells a lot about environment there.

Timmmmbob 13y ago
That makes no sense. Facebook specifically said they might have chosen git! They had the same choices as any developer except that a) they don't care about github, and b) they wanted to modify the VCS to support massive scale. Apparently out of git and mercurial, mercurial is easier to extend.
Uchikoma 13y ago
90% of people choose Git because everyone else uses it. Noone has been fired for buying IBM.
- Shamanmuni 13y ago
  I suspect many of us use Git because it was made by Linus Torvalds ( I think everyone agrees that he is a great developer) and is used in the Linux kernel. If it can handle that, then you can be pretty sure it will handle whatever you throw at it (unless you are Facebook, it seems). Add Github to that mix and you can see why so many developers sleep like babies at night. Of course it's not rigorous, but the choice is not irrational.
  - Crito 13y ago
    The linux kernel is much smaller than the entire codebase of Facebook.
    - merrua 13y ago
      Most projects are smaller than the Linux kernel though. Or start out that way.
ZenoArrow 13y ago
There is a well used "MercurialHub", it's called BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/ https://bitbucket.org/ It supports Git now as well, but it was only for Mercurial use when it started.
- warmwaffles 13y ago
  I could have sworn bitbucket was an SVN host to start with, then patched in mercurial support and then git support later.
  - barkingcat 13y ago
    Bitbucket never supported svn (and still doesn't), it was created with django + uses the pure python mercurial (It was one of the major "posterchild" stories for django). Not sure if it's still django though. You might be thinking of http://beanstalkapp.com/ http://beanstalkapp.com/ which supports svn.
  - tonfa 13y ago
    Just re-read the original announcement, it was definitely a mercurial only hosting. > Over the past couple of months, I've been working on creating a simple but powerful hosting service for Mercurial.
- dgesang 13y ago
  And there is also https://rhodecode.com/ https://rhodecode.com/
hibbelig 13y ago
Isn't MercurialHub called Bitbucket?

Timmmmbob 13y ago

That makes no sense. Facebook specifically said they might have chosen git! They had the same choices as any developer except that a) they don't care about github, and b) they wanted to modify the VCS to support massive scale. Apparently out of git and mercurial, mercurial is easier to extend.

Uchikoma 13y ago

90% of people choose Git because everyone else uses it. Noone has been fired for buying IBM.

Shamanmuni 13y ago
I suspect many of us use Git because it was made by Linus Torvalds ( I think everyone agrees that he is a great developer) and is used in the Linux kernel. If it can handle that, then you can be pretty sure it will handle whatever you throw at it (unless you are Facebook, it seems). Add Github to that mix and you can see why so many developers sleep like babies at night. Of course it's not rigorous, but the choice is not irrational.
- Crito 13y ago
  The linux kernel is much smaller than the entire codebase of Facebook.
  - merrua 13y ago
    Most projects are smaller than the Linux kernel though. Or start out that way.

ZenoArrow 13y ago

There is a well used "MercurialHub", it's called BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/ https://bitbucket.org/ It supports Git now as well, but it was only for Mercurial use when it started.

warmwaffles 13y ago
I could have sworn bitbucket was an SVN host to start with, then patched in mercurial support and then git support later.
- barkingcat 13y ago
  Bitbucket never supported svn (and still doesn't), it was created with django + uses the pure python mercurial (It was one of the major "posterchild" stories for django). Not sure if it's still django though. You might be thinking of http://beanstalkapp.com/ http://beanstalkapp.com/ which supports svn.
- tonfa 13y ago
  Just re-read the original announcement, it was definitely a mercurial only hosting. > Over the past couple of months, I've been working on creating a simple but powerful hosting service for Mercurial.
dgesang 13y ago
And there is also https://rhodecode.com/ https://rhodecode.com/

hibbelig 13y ago

Isn't MercurialHub called Bitbucket?