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because github is one of the most visible and most visited source hosting sites?

I still don't get your point. It's the most visited source hosting site, no doubt about that, so...?

On the subject of the topic, I'm getting tired of this git euforia. The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting. So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did? Sounds like a pretty useless voting for me. Well, except if you want to be popular and use all the tools the cool kids use these days, I guess that's a valid reason. Something tells me that there will be less 'I'm too cool to say positive things about PHP' kind of threads in HN.

to be fair the reason is outlined in the post. "... move to a decentralized version control system."

bazaar and mercurial are decentralized too, so that would only rule out SVN.

Well, I mean, there's a reason all the cool kids are using git these days, and it's not just to "look cool".

Well Git is simply great. It's fast, it's powerful, there's a very helpful community, it's integrated everywhere, there are well made and useful online repository (Yes Github, but others too), the list goes on and on. Yes, there are bazaar, mercurial and probably dozen of others, but there's also git.

I'm not sure I get your point. I think what you don't like is that they chose to jump on git without real reason instead of carefully comparing other alternatives. It might be true.. or it might not. All great programmers try various version control.. if the majority of them prefered Git for their personal projects, why not switch to it? And, for open source project, Github is really just too useful.

My point is rather simple: Everybody is jumping in the git/github bandwagen but the huge majority doesn't appear to be able to state practical advantage of git besides github popularity. That is my point.

Not saying that there are no advantages, but heck, changing to something else because "it should be good, everyone else is doing it" is plain stupid... and very silly. And those are attributes we wouldn't want to welcome to the hackers' community.

ever heard of the network effect?

Who are "we"? Someone making assumptions about the motivation of others?

  the huge majority doesn't appear to be able

How do you know that? Did you interview the huge majority yourself? Git has many important advantages over svn and they are no secret.

> The linked message says zero about the reason beyond a simple direct voting.

The linked message is a single posting from thousands to an internal message list, of course it doesn't. A quick search for "git" on the PHP internals list shows lots of posts.

> So, for no reason they decided to have a voting and ignore the reasons why people vote whatever they did?

Jumping to conclusions much?

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