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by astine 1764 days ago
Git didn't need GitHub to become popular. Torvald's name being attached to it is what did that. But GitHub is what gave Git the near monopoly on open source version control that it enjoys today. Once it became more convenient to contribute to open source projects by forking projects on GitHub than to self-host, that created a barrier against using any other version control system. Other version control systems would be much more popular if it weren't for GitHub.