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by tetomb 5169 days ago
I would have liked them to move to bitbucket.org because it was built with Django.
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elithrar 5169 days ago
> I would have liked them to move to bitbucket.org because it was built with Django.

But Mercurial itself wasn't (although it was written mostly in Python). I think this is a good example of taking the pragmatic choice (GitHub) over the ideological choice (Bitbucket).

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__alexs 5168 days ago
BitBucket supports Git repositories...
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mryan 5168 days ago
That's mostly irrelevant. A lot of people are not using Github just because it supports git - the network effect is one of the key drivers in choosing Github.
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__alexs 5168 days ago
Certainly but that wasn't on OPs list of reasons to use it :)
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dalore 5168 days ago
Looks like it was:

> Why Git/GitHub, as opposed to Mercurial/Bitbucket or some other system? Because it's very well-made, and it's where the people are.

Where the people are would imply because of the social aspects.

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rbanffy 5168 days ago
I really can't see the difference.

Both offer similar feature sets. If I want to keep my fork on Bitbucket, it's easy.

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