Re: bitbucket is lock in? (was: Re: Packaging on GitHub ?)

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On 2012-05-29 21:01:24 +0200 (+0200), Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012, Brian May wrote:
> 
> >I don't see the problem, github is just a hosting provider. Unlike,
> >say Bitkeeper, you are free to make git clones anywhere, entirely with
> >open source software, and are in no way locked down to using github.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the bitbucket case there? How am I not allowed
> to do a git clone from my git repo on bitbucket account? Where the
> same just works in github?

Bitbucket is not BitKeeper:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper

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