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Nah, it won because of GitHub.
by thfuran 3y ago
Nah, it won because of GitHub.
- meepmorp 3y agoBasically. I liked mercurial better than git, but GitHub's become the center of gravity for a lot of development.
- chungy 3y agoIt won well before GitHub. and I always liked it better than Mercurial too :)
- thfuran 3y agoThat's just not true. SVN was more popular than git until several years after GitHub was founded. Mercurial was reasonably popular as well.
- jdbernard 3y agoSVN may have been more widely used, but it was on the way out by the time GitHub was launched. It was the incumbent, at least in communities at the forefront of change. GitHub and integration with Microsoft tools certainly accelerated it's adoption into the enterprise environment, but among the "new VCSs with a future," git had already won.
- bananapub 3y ago? Github launched in 2008, git was popular then but not the completely dominant thing it is now.
- aulin 3y agoMost big open source projects switched to git way before GitHub existed. It was already popular when they launched and that's the reason they succeeded.