Why use git?

After some serious face time with git and a neat little addon called 'git flow' I've come up with my elevator pitch for using git:

1. Git is designed to get out of your way and let your development awesomeness shine.
2. Git is fast, mainly because things like history and checkpoints are all stored locally.  Combined with it's compression bits it's actually much faster then most.
3. Used with 'git flow' it can make complicated branching strategies and bug fix methodologies a breeze in big orgs with many developers across a disparate geographical area.

We use git here @hpcloud, and I can tell you it's amazing to see what these developers and engineers have done with it.