Perhaps the main advantage is that Git has won the mindshare war vs. Mercurial, and there are benefits to using what everyone else is using. Indeed, über-hacker

Perhaps the main advantage is that Git has won the mindshare war vs. Mercurial, and there are benefits to using what everyone else is using. Indeed, über-hacker Eric Raymond mentioned as recently as yesterday that he supports git even though he wishes hg had won instead. [1] [1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6476 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6476