Mercurial popularity is stagnant

Cahyadi Hendrawan chen.hendrawan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 06:40:04 UTC 2014


>
> It seems to me that GitHub is directly responsible for Git's popularity
> skyrocketing in 2009. By comparison, Mercurial's popularity seems to be
> stagnant for a while. Bitbucket initially did a decent job, but ever since
> they got bought out by Atlassian all public announcements emphasize Git
> support and don't mention Mercurial at all.
> ...
> How do we go about reversing this trend?
>
> Gili


Please apologize if this is sounds silly, but what about approaching
GitHub, and telling them to also support Mercurial hosting? This will
increase both GitHub and Mercurial user base. If Atlassian don't want to
work this market, then its probably a good chance for GitHub..

Regards,
Chen
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