The issue is less the version control system is my impression. The hosting infrastructure, GitHub issues and so forth, in the development community is absolute

The issue is less the version control system is my impression. The hosting infrastructure, GitHub issues and so forth, in the development community is absolutely critical these days. Social networking tools to pull a programming community together are so important. Pharo's case they've probably engineered git integration with a major goal of allowing people to contribute via GitHub issues.