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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by culi on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:49PM (#38371615)
Still seems near-sighted. If someone started a new mercurial project what would they choose to host it on? BitBucket basically automatically wins new users by being the only player in the game
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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by jeremyjh on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:57PM (#38371738)
They gave away free private repositories when Github was charging $7/month. That's the only reason they had most of the users they had.
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