I was going to mention TortoiseHG as a possible reason, I've found running git on windows painful, but then I found TortoiseGit just now. Personally I prefer G

I was going to mention TortoiseHG as a possible reason, I've found running git on windows painful, but then I found TortoiseGit just now. Personally I prefer Git, it's what we use here, but we don't really have a hard and fast rule - I think we have some subversion-based code trees knocking around too.