There seems to be somewhat of a git-is-cool wave going on on the web, I wonder what kicked that off. Certainly the introduction of neat web front ends such as GitHub must have helped, and from what I can work out some of the Rails crowd is using it, so maybe that explains Git reaching the elusive tipping point.

Any good version control system getting well known is allright by me, having had the misfortune of using Visual SourceSafe in its Visual Basic 6 days. ugh! Speaking of Git