You can absolutely spin up vanilla git on your own machine, but try using it for a week. From some quick Googles it looks like Github has 80% market share of ve

You can absolutely spin up vanilla git on your own machine, but try using it for a week. From some quick Googles it looks like Github has 80% market share of version control with Dollar Store Github (Gitlab) picking up the rest. Everyone uses the pretty tool stack built on top of it because it is overly complex. Git didn't add anything profound that couldn't have been added as a feature to another VCS.