Re: If bzr is less like using sharp pointy objects than git is

Bitbucket has other problems (and always has). They support cloning over hg or git for all repos, but you can't make pull requests to any repo other than the one you forked directly (no cross-fork collaboration). They *still* lack 2FA support (they said they'd do it on Twitter a few years ago, but then nothing happened; their issue for it has no comments from Atlassian on any recent timescale). The web interface is a lot clunkier than GitHub. All emails for an issue share a Message-Id so MUAs which actually use it display the threads suboptimally. There are other things, but I can't think of them right now. Even if Bitbucket had come first, GitHub has been so much better at execution that I think they'd still have "won".

Honestly, GitLab is better than Bitbucket (though I replace all "hg clone" commands with "git clone hg::" because I just cannot grok Mercurial, so that difference doesn't mean much to me) in every way I've had to deal with either and you can host your own (and I haven't used the enterprise edition).