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by jason_s 23 days ago
>Mercurial never had an equivalent platform push, which turned out to matter more than any of its technical merits. Version control systems are fundamentally collaboration platforms, and GitHub understood that before anyone else.

Mercurial did have an equivalent platform, on Bitbucket, but then Atlassian acquired Bitbucket and let its Mercurial support wither and die.

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I did not know this!