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Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by lucideer on Sunday October 09, 2016 @08:47PM (#12674400)
You switched from using "was" in your first paragraph to "is" in your second. There are certainly more competitors to Git today than there were then.
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Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by isxek on Monday October 10, 2016 @12:08AM (#12674982)
Are there really more? Some similar projects like Monotone and Bazaar are no longer being actively/regularly developed IIRC, and the number of hosting services for something as well-known as Mercurial has been dwindling.
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Re:Fossil: A decentralized version control, bug tracking, an... by merijnv on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:48AM (#12675892)
Because, I'm guessing, a lot of people using Mercurial (like me) are just using GitHub. Mercurial has had a functional bidirectional git-mercurial bridge extension for over half a decade and I've never ran into issues with it.

The result is that I happily keep using Mercurial locally even when collaborating with people using Git. I don't see the need to have Mercurial specific hosting. (Well, until Bitbucket finally starts working with obsolence markers so I can use Changeset Evolution).

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