It's impressive how a software became a defacto standard when things like mercurial or SVN existed long before it.It's not just hype or Github,though it helps.I

It's impressive how a software became a defacto standard when things like mercurial or SVN existed long before it.It's not just hype or Github,though it helps.It's the distributed nature of the software that makes it powerfull, also the fact that git itself is more like a protocol than a piece of software.But git dont work for every use cases though( big binary blobs ),so there is still room on the market for such cases.