+
+ No other distributed version control system can list so many major free software projects on its
+ "e;used-by"e; page. This means that Git seems to work for these projects and
+ that large group of free software developers were able to agree on Git.
+
+
+
+ But this also means that all the developers participating in those many projects have learned to
+ use Git and have installed Git on their machines. So if you want others to contribute to your
+ project, it is much more likely that they do so, if you use the same DVCS that they are already
+ familiar with.
+
+
+
+ Major projects that use Git:
+
+ - Android
+ - Apache Software Foundation (At least they officially mirror to Git.)
+ - Debian (almost all packages, if a DVCS is used)
+ - Drupal
+ - Eclipse
+ - Fedora
+ - Gnome
+ - KDE
+ - The Linux Kernel of course ...
+ - Perl
+ - PHP (decided to migrate to Git)
+ - PostgreSQL
+ - Qt
+ - Ruby on Rails (and it seems the Ruby world in general prefers Git)
+ - all freedesktop.org projects, including X.org
+ - and many many more ...
+
+ Compare this with lists of projects using
+
Mercurial or
+
Bazaar.
+
+