[hawski]

In my opinion Git won because it was fast. It is fast because it is decentralized. It is fast because it was done by serious C hackers (there I said it). It may have a problematic UX/UI for many, but it is good enough. But it is fast.

How fast is Git? Do you remember or have you tried other VCS-es older than Git? Try getting the first working copy, try looking at changes for a file through all its history, try making a new branch, try tagging. Git is fast.

Because it is fast it was selected by many and the rest is network effects. Now you can do something just as fast or maybe even faster, but everyone else is on git. You may do something with better UX/UI, but this rarely is enough. You have to do something much better and you will not be orders of magnitude faster than git, but that is now a basic requirement.