At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:23:21 +0100, Ashley Moran wrote:
GitHub is responsible for git's popularity. Git is so popular not because it's the best, but because it has the best Web 2.0 site. I work primarily in web development and it did occur to me to have a stab at darcshub, but I didn't know how much work would be involved in making something useful (I don't have much spare time right now), and if I'd be the only person that used it...
I think this view is probably coloured by your background in web development. I have used git for about a year now, and never visited GitHub. I'm not saying you have to like git, but it does have other features other than a snazzy web site. I do agree that adoption of development tools is driven by network effects. When I chose a DVCS to learn, I only wanted to learn one, so I chose the one that seemed like it had the most momentum. The rich get richer... Maybe the answer is to work on Darcs-git :-) David