However, Mercurial also didn't exist before 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial#History i would gues

However, Mercurial also didn't exist before 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial#History i would guess you are right, though, that at the point SDL chose Mercurial (I don't know when), git hadn't achieved the market domination over mercurial it now has.