On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 01:16:56PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote: [...]
> I realized gitlab and bitbucket have this graph feature. I am wondering > why github is so popular (most likely because it is there and big) and > not providing such an elementary feature. My take is that - as with everything in IT, - popularity of a particular technology is mostly driven by fad cycles which are hard to predict, and not based on a feature set or whatever other objective, technical criteria. I'm inclined to think that Github rose in popularity because it somehow happened to ride the wave of popularity of Git, which I witnessed. The fact is, quite a number of lower-grade software developers honestly beleived Github is required to use Git or were surprised to hear Github and Git are actually different things. As usually happens in such cases, entry-level no-brainer tutorials on Git had increasingly used Github as an example, and hence many newfangled devs sort of got the idea of using Github instilled. Another obvious case is that when a service becomes widely popular, having an account in it starts to have certain appeal since after registering one you gain easy access to all that code. Also don't forget that Github IMO was the first (or sole to this day?) Git hosting solution to prominently feature "forking" - to the point of making it a social feature. (I recall worries of some of the key devs behind Subversion that this approach will kill useful contributions as there will be hordes of competing forks, all alike; his prognosis has happened to be, like 50% correct and 50% not.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/20220301174250.cb2rhnw3gz7ybr23%40carbon.
