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by giulianob 4987 days ago
Github attracted a lot of the Ruby developers. They are extremely vocal on the web which I think is what made Github and Git so popular. I personally prefer Hg over Git as well due to friendlier syntax but Git hit it off a lot better w/ that vocal OSX community.

I don't know many people who use Windows that like Git. The ports were buggy for a long time and the best visual tool, SmartGit, isn't free. Mercurial which has TortoiseHg which is excellent but I hear is painful to get running on OSX (maybe this has changed). Mercurial is fairly popular still though. I think a lot of people use it but not many popular articles get written about it the same way it does about Git.

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Yes, ROR people talked a lot, on web, that also counts.