GitHub is what made git so popular, git wasn’t inevitable, and GitHub didn’t become huge because of git, GitHub’s big innovation was attaching a social network

GitHub is what made git so popular, git wasn’t inevitable, and GitHub didn’t become huge because of git, GitHub’s big innovation was attaching a social network to a software/code repo. It’s what made it way more popular than basically all the competition, which were just software/code repos but didn’t have a great network/social story. (Also at the time GitHub was coming out, the biggest player in the space decided to monetize in an annoying way.)