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		mryan on April 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem That's mostly irrelevant. A lot of people are not using Github just because it supports git - the network effect is one of the key drivers in choosing Github.

__alexs on April 29, 2012 [–]

Certainly but that wasn't on OPs list of reasons to use it :)

dalore on April 29, 2012 | [–]

Looks like it was:

> Why Git/GitHub, as opposed to Mercurial/Bitbucket or some other system? Because it's very well-made, and it's where the people are.

Where the people are would imply because of the social aspects.

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