Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.
Bitbucket passes one million users
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#22Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.
> Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect.
No need to proclaim personal tastes as absolute truths around here.
In any case, Bitbucket has complete git support.
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#23Bitbucket is an especially awesome resource for students. (Yes, I know GitHub offers free student accounts.) But the unlimited free private repositories makes it easy to back up tons of homework projects (as opposed to the small GitHub offering), without worrying about clogging your quota, or having your work available to the public.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has a lot to do with the latest growth. I've taken one or two Coursera courses (eg. [1]) where Bitbucket was specifically recommended for the private repositories.
It would be a hassle to get counted as a student by Github without an edu email, and it would be too much for them to individually approve tens of thousands of people.
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#24I have been using Bitbucket for all my private projects. I think both BitBucket and Github can prosper together.
You can improve this algorithm a bit by adding the string "compliments of the day to you!" to the output...
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#25The people in the comment are the first ACTUAL people I've met that use bitbucket >_>
Tool usage patterns often exhibit social clustering. I.e., friends and colleagues tend to use similar tools, through a mixture of exposure, recommendation, similar work habits, shared constraints, etc. When the tool in question is about interacting with others (whether socially or professionally), it's naturally even more pronounced.
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#26Recently starting using Bitbucket and I really like it. I find the team thing a bit difficult to understand and not very intuitive but it could be just me. I vaguely remember them also having SVN support but that seems to be no longer there. I guess I have re-import all my old repos using Git now.
As far as I can remember, they started with providing Mercurial support, not SVN. Perhaps you were thinking of Google Code (they had SVN support, then Hg, then Git)?
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#27Bitbucket is an especially awesome resource for students. (Yes, I know GitHub offers free student accounts.) But the unlimited free private repositories makes it easy to back up tons of homework projects (as opposed to the small GitHub offering), without worrying about clogging your quota, or having your work available to the public.
Exactly! Just backing up my .bash_rc files and other configuration files in a git repo, push on BitBucket and it makes it so easy to setup a new dev env on every new machine with all your custom aliases.
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#28Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.
> Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. No need to proclaim personal tastes as absolute truths around here. In any case, Bitbucket has complete git support.
> No need to proclaim personal tastes as absolute truths around here.
In all fairness, we all do that a lot.
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#29I've been using them for a few years now. Free repos got me there. Assembla makes use of it as well, and I've run it through that on a project. I don't do enough open source stuff unfortunately to find myself at Github, but for maintaining a bunch of free private repos its great.
Assembla is an independent company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembla
Thanks for the correction. I made the edit above. Funny thing is that I had a feeling I was wrong, but general sloppiness convinced me adding a question mark to my statement was better then taking 10 seconds to actually look it up.
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#30Mercurial is a better tool than Git in almost every aspect. It's easy to learn and gets out of your way. I chose it over git a few years ago and sticked with it ever since and used Bitbucket to host most of my stuff. You don't get the community that Github has, but the hosting is great.
I totally agree. Its one of those tools that stays out of your way unless you `need` to do something weird (unfortunately when you need to do that some times it can get really wierd). I feel like with git the base line is fairly complicated.