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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by richardwhiuk on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:07AM (#25645072)
There's definitely an argument that GitHub is one of the primary reasons that Git beat Mercurial.
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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by dkersten on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:59AM (#25645549)
Anecdotally, I started using git because of projects on Github I wanted to contribute to. A number of others I know where in a similar boat. Before that, we used subversion, bazaar or mercurial. I personally am happy with having been pushed to using git and if it was winning anyway (not clear) I'm sure I would have eventually ended there anyway, but GitHub is the reason I started using it when I did.
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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:10AM (#25645096)
Yep!

"One click" fork + "one click" pull request are its killer features.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by jhasse on Friday January 08, 2021 @12:11PM (#25686907)
I've used Mercurial. It sucks compared to Git. And not because I can't use it on GitHub.
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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by richardwhiuk on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:50AM (#25775275)
It's tricky to compare them now, because Git won, it's got a lot more investment. Ideally you'd need to care them just before Git got the upper hand - but that's hard to pinpoint.
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