Tortoisehg being cross platform is important - users are on a mix of OSs and it's useful to be able to recommend one tool that their colleagues using the same s

Tortoisehg being cross platform is important - users are on a mix of OSs and it's useful to be able to recommend one tool that their colleagues using the same software will also be using. Also, our software is controlled via scripts written by the user, and so we recommend they version control their own code. A uniform GUI for this makes it easier to get new students up to speed with how to operate these things. So version control isn't just for the developers necessarily (though there's no reason why we couldn't use git for development of the software itself even though the users use a different version control system) Searching probably isn't how people find out about our project, though I'm not sure. We have a published paper that gets citations, so people find out that way, and I suspect it might be mostly word of mouth. But we really don't know. You're right, we should ask them! But we have zero telemetry so we only know about the users who participate in the mailing list or issue tracker or otherwise contact us.