I suspect something in the magic of the execution of github has also helped a lot. Maybe it's the strong focus on social ontop of code and storage or something

I suspect something in the magic of the execution of github has also helped a lot. Maybe it's the strong focus on social ontop of code and storage or something else but that site has probably helped a lot. Then again, even before that many big projects were falling to git from the likes of svn like Xorg and others. So it's hard to say. Maybe going back to the mailing lists of some of the big conversations might help shed more light. But yes, usually what can make a piece of software great is having some good applications, and the linux kernel was a great place for git to grow up and show off on. Maybe mercurial just suffered from less of that. Mind share seems to grow exponentially.