8 Nov
2023
8 Nov
'23
4:03 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 15:40:25 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Yes, I used Mercurial for a number of projects back in the day and quite liked it. That was before git steamrolled everything...
BitBucket started as a Mercurial-only service. Then, they also offered Git, by popular demand. And more recently, they found they could no longer make a profit from their Mercurial offering, so they shut that down. Git is a clear-cut case of a product succeeding through its merits, not because there was some big company behind it.