[jtchang]

I think it is a legitimate question.

I picked up git because I know I needed to use SOMETHING for version control. Looking around a few years back I saw CVS, SVN, and the rest.

So I Google/ask around. I see that git is getting mentioned pretty regularly. I also see Hg being mentioned. I basically search for free hosting for both. Github just seemed more friendly. The UI was bigger and easier to read than bitbucket. So I just went with git.

Often it is the stupid reasons that people adopt something: it looks nicer, my friends are using it, I can pronounce the name.