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dan-robertson on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a ...

I think the quality of GitHub compared to other code hosting systems is probably why git is so popular. Mercurial is still used in plenty of places (eg Mozilla, Facebook). And integrating with GitHub/other things which are integrated with GitHub seems like a major factor which convinced open source projects to start with/switch to git.

jw14 on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

That's a good point. Although Mercurial had Bitbucket.

Was GitHub that much better? Or was it network effect of everyone on GitHub? (sincere question, I don't know)

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