Years and years ago, ZeroTurnaround's small, geeky engineering team started looking into Git and Mercurial. We had been using Subversion for ages, and felt like it was time to look into other alternatives, namely to migrate to a decentralized version control system (DVCS) so that we could alienate our partners by committing code while on vacation with them. This was back when it wasn't possible to use Git on our Windows workstations and recently-released Kiln was supporting only Mercurial. So, not wanting to wait for things to improve on their own, we chose to use Mercurial rather than Git.