"Why do you think it's been so widely adopted? Torvalds: I think that many others had been frustrated by all the same issues that made me hate SCM's" Actually

"Why do you think it's been so widely adopted? Torvalds: I think that many others had been frustrated by all the same issues that made me hate SCM's" Actually, the adoption was caused by the network effect. It took off with a core group of Linux-involved developers promoting it religiously, then it went on like a fashion (we are git-wielders, we are cool), and ended up being the default choice for a lot of other projects that either depended on some degree on 3rd party git-managed modules, or wanted to benefit from the existing disciplined git-trained developers, or just... because (for all things being equal). Having this presumption that the adopters actually thought for themselves and Torvalds's brain-child got where it is now thanks to its own technical merits is a pleasant thought though.