Because Git isn't what attracts most people to GitHub. It's the sheer fact that GitHub is frickin' HUGE and has lots of people who will show up, fork your project, and send you a pull request. I love Bitbucket, but honestly if GitHub added Mercurial support I would probably move all the way to GitHub because of the size of the community.
This sums up my feelings exactly. I'm emphatically not a fan of the Github guys (who seem rather unprofessional), but the community is too big to ignore. I'll probably switch if/when they support hg, unless Atlassian can find a way to encourage a much more robust community in Bitbucket.
(And no, Github fans, hg-git is not "support" for hg.)
Not the OP, but I sent a friendly note asking a question that was perhaps a bit dumb--just asking to clarify what one "collaborator" meant to them. The response I got back was a bit rude.
Keep in mind my email said I was choosing a subscription plan. As someone who has done support, being rude to people about to purchase your service is even dumber than the question I asked...
I encountered something similar as well with their subscription plans. This was before a friend pointed me to Bitbucket, at which I've been very happy since.
A lot of people/companies I know were using Assembla and Beanstalk.
I wonder how big a threat this is to them, rather than Github .
I notice that Bitbucket hasnt integrated Issues tracker with git. Bitbucket's bug tracking was IMHO much superior to github.
Plus Bitbucket doesnt format the README markdown as nicely as Github.
EDIT: I notice that I was mistaken. you need to enable bug tracking from the admin tab.
Partially agree about the threat. This news generates a lot of marketing that could drive new users to Bitbucket instead of Assembla and Beanstalk. But for existing users (I've been using Assembla for a while for private repos) there is probably a lot less reason to switch over.
This sums up my feelings exactly. I'm emphatically not a fan of the Github guys (who seem rather unprofessional), but the community is too big to ignore. I'll probably switch if/when they support hg, unless Atlassian can find a way to encourage a much more robust community in Bitbucket.
(And no, Github fans, hg-git is not "support" for hg.)