[jw14]

Creating both are merits, of course.

But creating Linux should not be a merit toward Git. Obviously the experience would make Git better. But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one?

I'd love to be wrong because now Mercurial is sort of dead and I have to use Git every day if I want to work with others. I'd love to have a better attitude about it. So far it just looks like another thing that one because X popular guy made it or Y big company made it.

[tomnipotent]

> But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one?

Because it wasn't better? Git won because it's overall a superior VCS, had better support for complex workflows, was performant, and had GitHub which means teams could circumvent IT.

[pjmlp]

Git won because anyone that wanted to contribute to Linux had to use it.

[tomnipotent]

That's ridiculous. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of other developers and projects out there.

[clktmr]

That's not true at all. All you need ist a diff tool and an email address.