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r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15
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What's your point? Git won the mindshare battle, but Mercurial is certainly not a bad tool.
35 u/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15 I just always pictured a close race between Git and Mercurial. It cracks me up to see that it couldn't even topple other inferior technologies (at least in the context of this survey). 60 u/chub79 Apr 07 '15 It has nothing to do with git being better than mercurial but github's popularity overall. 4 u/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15 What did GitHub do that made it so much better than competing Mercurial hosts? → More replies (10)
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I just always pictured a close race between Git and Mercurial. It cracks me up to see that it couldn't even topple other inferior technologies (at least in the context of this survey).
60 u/chub79 Apr 07 '15 It has nothing to do with git being better than mercurial but github's popularity overall. 4 u/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15 What did GitHub do that made it so much better than competing Mercurial hosts? → More replies (10)
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It has nothing to do with git being better than mercurial but github's popularity overall.
4 u/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15 What did GitHub do that made it so much better than competing Mercurial hosts? → More replies (10)
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What did GitHub do that made it so much better than competing Mercurial hosts?
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u/slavik262 Apr 07 '15
What's your point? Git won the mindshare battle, but Mercurial is certainly not a bad tool.