I tend to think that this is the case as well. If you look at the GitHub Language Stats (http://github.com/languages) you'll see that Ruby takes up 38% of all lines of code on GitHub. JavaScript takes up another 25%.

Python's only at 6% and Java, C++ and C files combined are only 8% of the total LOC.

Git actually is a nice tool and it's getting quite a bit better, but I prefer mercurial, and I think that it's an easier tool for devs used to SVN to make the switch.

A few weeks ago, I threw together a blog post detailing how I use mercurial (http://naleid.com/blog/2008/11/25/my-mercurial-setup-plus-so...).

There's buzz out there about mercurial, it's just hard to hear over the cacaphony being caused by git.