[muxator]

Yes, git won.

This does not mean that mercurial is not highly ergonomic, equally powerful, with a very ordered and dynamic codebase, and a sane community.

Edit: and I keep wondering what the panorama would have been like if we had hghub instead of github.

[yeukhon]

There is, Bitbucket was exclusively Hg before Bitbucket saw Git's popularity. This is my opinion: Bitbucket is like the new Sourceforge. I'd be interested to see a survey on Hg and Git usage today.

[glandium]

IIRC from when I looked ~2 years ago, > 80% of new repositories on bitbucket were using git. (and that's a conservative estimate, because I'm not entirely sure whether it clearly was over 90% or not, but it might (likely) have been).

[microcolonel]

> I keep wondering what the panorama would have been like if we had HgHub instead of GitHub.

Yeah, I think that the Linux process and jargon both came along for the ride with Git, so it would probably be even more different than you think.