>The latter is ahead in network effects in a massive way - but I always preferred Mercurial. I'd have used it more but - network effects! - used git because of the projects I was working on.
I've recently wrote a post about it - how we're kinda locked with git and how other solutions have it hard to get adoption.
git was good, but github cemented git's position. So unless GitHub allows other solutions, then we're kinda locked.
>So what's the issue here? I'm worried that just because GitHub is so good, then unless they decouple from git as letters management engine and allow any/other, then we will be locked with git.