Google Code also is more project centric. Which for some people/projects is a better fit.
Google Code's Issue tracker is better than many of the others out there in my opinion.
DISCLAIMER: I am an engineer on the team responsible for Google Code Hosting.
1. https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support 2. http://hg-git.github.com
https://github.com/cfinke/googlecode2github