> At that point in time, it was not yet clear that distributed version control would eventually take over, and even less clear that Git would be the dominant sy

> At that point in time, it was not yet clear that distributed version control would eventually take over, and even less clear that Git would be the dominant system. Literally reading it on GitHub's blog, where the whole endeavor has the name of a source control system in it. Jokes aside, did they knew Git was going to win or did they just take on a massive risk that would otherwise gone wrong?