[simonw]

Disagree. Git wasn't the clear winner when GitHub launched - and in fact the entire category of distributed version control was still proving itself.

I remember the GitHub team investing huge amounts of effort into convincing people to use git and teaching them how to do it - one of the four co-founders (Scott) was dedicated to that effort full-time.

[Person5478]

git was the clear winner when github released.

[mikey_p]

Not really, lots of folks were using mercurial with BitBucket which didn't support Git at the time. Bazaar and Launchpad were also pretty common. I remember at one point around 2009-2010 I was semi-regularly using CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar and Git.

[Person5478]

lots of people were using lots of things at that time, most were using git.

[dialamac]

You have no evidence to back this claim up, because it’s not true.