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Any significant reasons on why bitbucket is so behind github? I mean, "open source projects are in github" might be an answer but my question is "why are open source projects in github and not in bitbucket?".


BitBucket only supported Mercurial for a long time. That's fine with me, but if you prefer Git, it wasn't an option.


I think that was what put me off at first. I think git was just more popular around the time I looked into using a VCS.


I think it's fair to say that GitHub grabbed the lead because it was at the time much better than the competition. Now that they are the incumbent, network effect is going to win out for a long time.




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