[Frondo]

Because a lot of us have used tools besides git that enable the workflow we need without that complexity, and without the fragility that often necessitates going to stackoverflow or asking on a slack channel.

I have a way of picking the losing side so I've been using mercurial for everything until now, and until now Bitbucket offered hg. They're decommissioning it so I'm moving over to git and I feel like my workflow has been hampered, not just in the immediate complexity of learning the new tool, but in the ongoing complexity of using a less good tool for my needs.

I'm dealing with it, but the situation you're describing isn't really the one that I and a lot of other whiners are dealing with.

[josefx]

> Because a lot of us have used tools besides git that enable the workflow we need without that complexity

I spend ages unfucking local svn working copies and long running branches on both windows and linux. git needs some serious flaws to keep up with that experience.

[anoncake]

> Because a lot of us have used tools besides git that enable the workflow we need

Thankfully the standard DVCS is flexible enough to enable the workflows others need too.