True, and I also find it BETTER. It actually came when Atlassian bought out BitBucket[1].

Wow, I never knew that. I thought Atlassian created BitBucket. Thanks for the link.

I think GitHub's role in the DVCS war is huge. Git got an early lead thanks to Linus Torvalds, but it was GitHub that let it ultimately steamroller Mercurial and the also-rans. GitHub was the war-winner because of Metcalfe's law - as soon as it had a 40% advantage in numbers, it had a two-fold advantage in value, and from there there was no going back from there.