>>8 DVCS isn't like RCS, CVS, or SVN. Two people can both use different DVCS systems and cooperate- one user can use darcs, another can use git. In contrast if you use SVN for version control, everyone has to use SVN for version control.

now git does have some features that make it superior to other systems. The only complaint I've heard about git is that it's hard to use under Windows. I don't care about them.

>>9 There is a remarkably practical reason to use git: You can export to SVN or CVS so people can anonymously pull from you very easily. This means you can use git all you like, and you don't risk alienating other people because everyone knows how to pull from CVS.

Even if you decide to use another VCS (for whatever reason), checking in through git will make it easy to forward it to anonymous users.