[kasey_junk]

GitHub had a business model where public repos were free. BitBucket didn’t.

That’s it. That’s why git won, you could put up open source libs with one for free and not the other.

Which is extra funny as the centralized service was the most important part of decentralized version control.

[awesome_dude]

Apologies for the late reply - but I just saw this and immediately thought

So git /did/ have something better than Mercurial after all, it was a 3rd party, but it still meant that it was massively better than Mercurial.

[seniorThrowaway]

>the centralized service was the most important part of decentralized version control.

I've often thought this about github