[Locke1689]

Git's Windows support is clearly the weakest since it requires either MinGW or Cygwin. The platform itself is unoptimized for native Windows performance. It may not be terrible but it's certainly the weakest of the DVCSs, as they say.

[HerberthAmaral]

Yes, but when I read the PEP, sounded like this is the biggest motivation to not use Git.

[cppsnob]

Because... we all know Windows Python users are stylin with the Windows command shell.

I agree with the grandparent, this decision was political.