[jdboyd]

I tried using darcs for awhile before I ever touched git. What made me initially switch was that darcs is non-trivial to install if you can't use a package manager (say because policy doesn't allow you to). After that, what really sold me on git was that git had much nicer integration with svn. I no longer use svn, but it was important at the jobs I had while I was getting started with dvcs in general.