Ruby and Rails were big at the time, and those communities really took to Git. There was kind of a competition between them and Python, so maybe that had some

Ruby and Rails were big at the time, and those communities really took to Git. There was kind of a competition between them and Python, so maybe that had some influence on not picking Mercurial/Bazaar, but regardless I think it wasn't as grounded in technical points as we'd like to think.