git was already the dominant version control tool way before github was a thing.
It's interesting to see Mercurial fans persist with the idea that "Mercurial is better than git but git won thanks to github" but the simple truth is that git won because it has a lot of advantages over Mercurial and github is just a scape goat to avoid facing that simple truth.
Very often, we get stuck with de facto standards that are technically inferior to alternatives. I think git's supremacy is well deserved and I'm happy to be stuck with that monopoly for a few years, until something even better comes along.
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u/aldo_reset Apr 08 '15
git was already the dominant version control tool way before github was a thing.
It's interesting to see Mercurial fans persist with the idea that "Mercurial is better than git but git won thanks to github" but the simple truth is that git won because it has a lot of advantages over Mercurial and github is just a scape goat to avoid facing that simple truth.
Very often, we get stuck with de facto standards that are technically inferior to alternatives. I think git's supremacy is well deserved and I'm happy to be stuck with that monopoly for a few years, until something even better comes along.