There are a number of other projects that used the same concepts, so, fame was definitely a factor. But I think it was more important that Torvalds was the lea

There are a number of other projects that used the same concepts, so, fame was definitely a factor. But I think it was more important that Torvalds was the leader of an important software project, could mandate its use, and recruit maintainers, despite the project’s immaturity in the early stages. Torvalds’ skill did matter, though. He understood the essence of git’s predecessors, and wrote a credible system that had very good performance from day one.