Best tool for the job, can't agree more with that. We have a team that insists on using git when:
- it is just a small team (less than 5 devs)
- there is no github, just a locally hosted gitorious instance (proprietary project)
- the lead dev who picks git is using Windows half the time
- there are less technical people who need commit rights (e.g. changing reports layout, changing CSS, etc)
I believe the "git already won" mentality (which is very apparent in the comments of both OP article and HN) get these people to pick git over mercurial. And once they become familiar with git, they won't let go, due to the sunk cost of learning gitology[1].