> IMO git won due to github more than anything else. You're reversing the causes and consequences. Git was awesome from the start, and asn an over-night succe

> IMO git won due to github more than anything else. You're reversing the causes and consequences. Git was awesome from the start, and asn an over-night success due to linux. Github's contribution, and role in git's success, was only one: providing a free hosting service that presented a usable and user-friendly alternative to sourceforge. There are plenty of hosting companies that support Git, and some even supported competing decentralized version control systems from the start. Yet, none of them worked so well as git.