Two of the key features that were part of of early git that show much git was about support Linux kernel development: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am https://g

Two of the key features that were part of of early git that show much git was about support Linux kernel development: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email Git was built around supporting the linux kernel email lists. And while there are a number of other options out there that sprang up around the same time, many of them didn't fill the core need for git at that time - to reduce the stress / workload on Linus.