Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?]

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/30/2015 02:27 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> What you seem to be saying is you use git because "everybody" else does.

Not really.  The Git maintainer is a friend of mine: we worked together 
for many years building mostly-proprietary software. He's one of the 
best hackers I know.  Git in part uses implementation ideas that I was 
using before Git was a gleam in Linus Torvalds's eye. So I make no 
pretense of being impartial here. Nor do I use Git merely because 
"everybody" else does.

I partly use Emacs for the same reason I use Git. It's free and reliable 
and efficient and supported by hackers whose judgment I trust.