I think there was a co-evolution of the two. A lot of people started using git because Github was where the cool projects were being hosted. At the time, I reca

I think there was a co-evolution of the two. A lot of people started using git because Github was where the cool projects were being hosted. At the time, I recall hoping for bzr to "win". I like git these days but coming from an svn is king world - bzr was a bit gentler for transition.