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> _it is such a huge success_

GitHub _is_ a huge success, and git is merely comes along in a bandwagon (English isn't my native, hope I've made this clear)

> Whereas in mercurial, I feel pretty much lost when I want to do something that has not been an implemented workflow.

Interesting, could you give an example?

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> GitHub _is_ a huge success, and git is merely comes along in a bandwagon (English isn't my native, hope I've made this clear)

It's the other way around. Git was such a huge success, so therefore someone decided to create a nice web-frontend and SASS for it. That SASS was Github.

IIRC git was already a huge success, i.e. most big freesoftware projects (Linux, GNOME, xorg, gstreamer and many more) ditched other VCS for it, when github was still in its early stages.

I remember quite a few (Go, SDL, Java,Google Code repositories...) using Mercurial until switching to git due to peer pressure was unavoidable.

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