[mikey_p]

Not really, lots of folks were using mercurial with BitBucket which didn't support Git at the time. Bazaar and Launchpad were also pretty common. I remember at one point around 2009-2010 I was semi-regularly using CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar and Git.

[Person5478]

lots of people were using lots of things at that time, most were using git.

[dialamac]

You have no evidence to back this claim up, because it’s not true.