3 ms·
> I may have even had a small hand in some part of that. Quite an understatement. I'm pretty sure GitHub is the primary reason that Git took off like it did.
by olalonde 7mo ago
> I may have even had a small hand in some part of that.
Quite an understatement. I'm pretty sure GitHub is the primary reason that Git took off like it did.
- aoshifo 7mo agoCould be I live in a bubble, but I don't use git because of GitHub or with GitHub that much. No doubt, GitHub is/was great for distributing software but I feel we'd still all be using git without GitHub
- olalonde 7mo agoPractically no one was using Git before GitHub (except Linux). Subversion was much more widespread.
- NateEag 7mo agoSubversion was (and is) an admirable project, and filled a void by being much better than CVS. When I discovered git, I couldn't go back to svn - git fit my mind _so_ much better. It might not have seen the meteoric rise without GitHub, but just like it's weird to find servers running an OS other than Linux these years, I suspect there would have been a steady growth that eventually made it dominant. I suspect it will be very hard to unseat git at this point - for all its untuitive UI it's good enough for most things, and it's been slowly improving for the use cases where it's weak.
- olalonde 7mo agoSure, my point was simply that many people discovered Git because of GitHub.