Comment Why is it soaring? (Score 1, Redundant) 346
I've been working with BitKeeper over the past 3 years. From what I understand Git and BitKeeper share exactly the same concept, all differences being minor ones (for example see http://versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/BitKeeper/Git/index.html).
BitKeeper has been around for a while. Why is Git suddenly so popular? Is it so popular? What has changed?