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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by simonw on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:55PM (#26083612)
Disagree. Git wasn't the clear winner when GitHub launched - and in fact the entire category of distributed version control was still proving itself.

I remember the GitHub team investing huge amounts of effort into convincing people to use git and teaching them how to do it - one of the four co-founders (Scott) was dedicated to that effort full-time.

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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by Person5478 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:06PM (#26083720)
git was the clear winner when github released.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by mikey_p on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:29PM (#26083948)
Not really, lots of folks were using mercurial with BitBucket which didn't support Git at the time. Bazaar and Launchpad were also pretty common. I remember at one point around 2009-2010 I was semi-regularly using CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar and Git.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by Person5478 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:07AM (#26088565)
lots of people were using lots of things at that time, most were using git.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by dialamac on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:06PM (#26107183)
You have no evidence to back this claim up, because it’s not true.
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