Why Should Boost Move to Git?

Subversion works well for Boost's version control needs, so why should we move to Git?

That's really the wrong question, however. Here are the real questions:

Aside: The Wikipedia article on ​Distributed revision control as of 2 Feb 2011 is weaker than usual and may be misleading. Don't draw any conclusions based on it.

Why should Boost move to a distributed version control system?

Why should Boost choose Git as our distributed version control system?

Mercurial, Bazaar, and perhaps Fossil are also well developed and supported DVCS systems. They are widely used by well-known open source projects. So why choose Git?