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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by crabbone on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:46AM (#42949173)
Bitbucket offered free Mercurial hosting before GitHub even existed, if memory serves. And it's all but dead.

And, I don't know if GitHub succeeded because of Git or the other way around.

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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by maccard on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:30AM (#42950914)
This war was over around about the time I started, but my take on it is that it's all a bit intermixed and Mercurial lost because bitbucket caved and did git hosting [2], but git won beacuse of github and heroku [1][2]

[1] https://www.koyeb.com/blog/herokus-free-tier-legacy-the-shou... [2] https://blog.gitbutler.com/why-github-actually-won/

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Re:Beej's Guide to Git by pseudalopex on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:19PM (#42955314)
Bitbucket and GitHub started around the same time. GitHub executed better. And the Ruby community adopted GitHub early. Comparisons around 2010 said GitHub's UX and network effects were top reasons to choose Git. Mercurial's UX and much better Windows support were top reasons to choose Mercurial.
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