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> with ungodly marketing Was the the marketing of git basically due to the fact that Linus created it?
by yitchelle 10y ago
> with ungodly marketing
Was the the marketing of git basically due to the fact that Linus created it?
- adambrenecki 10y agoI think it had more to do with GitHub than anything else. In GitHub's early days, they put a lot of effort into marketing Git (e.g. the now defunct "Git Is Better Than X" website), because they needed people to use it in order to use GitHub.
- antod 10y agoI reckon it was a combination of Github and Rails being early adopters at the peak growth of their hype cycle. In the early days of Github it seemed like most of the projects there were Ruby based (Rails users overflowing).
- JoshTriplett 10y agoDeveloper word-of-mouth in general, combined with the massive network effects of a version control system. Once you use a VCS because software you work on uses it, if you want to start your own project, you tend to use what you know.
- wangchow 10y agoGit was designed for the Linux kernel source which everyone using android or another Linux distro is interested in. That helps a lot because if it can handle that project surely it can handle any other codebase.
- solipsism 10y agoNot any other codebase. Codebases with huge and often-changing binaries (e.g. images or 3d models), for example, were troublesome for git, at least historically. The Linux kernel isn't big in all ways.