An explanation for that might be that Go, being a Google Project, is hosted on Google Code, where Mercurial is the only supported DVCS. http://googlecode.blogs

An explanation for that might be that Go, being a Google Project, is hosted on Google Code, where Mercurial is the only supported DVCS. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for... http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis