On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Ramana Kumar wrote:
In case there's any confusion about it, switching to git does _not_ entail switching to GitHub, which merely provides hosting for git repositories with a lot of "social" features and a nice web interface. Git repositories can be hosted at many places (e.g., savannah.nongnu.org, gitbull.org, bitbucket.org, etc.) and can be self-hosted (like git.kernel.org), or any combination of these simultaneously.
Pointing to alternatives of Github, such as Bitbucket, it is also possible to see beyond git as well, and consider Mercurial.
There is mainly a cultural difference: git users like flashy tools and big noisy communities, Mercurial users like to use a tool quietely without much ado about it. So strictly speaking, as a Mercurial user I could not even advertize that here, but on 01-Apr one could probably make an exception.
Makarius