[stormbrew]

I mean, when I was using cvs because cvs was the only thing I could use I don't think I was trying to use it like git and I was still pretty happy when better things came along. Subversion and perforce in particular improved merging massively long before git came onto the scene.

CVS was fine for small projects with a couple devs at most. Anything more than that and you needed someone on your project with far more domain knowledge in cvs than git requires now to avoid losing all your data in a botched operation on the thousands of independent rcs files a repo consisted of, so I really can't agree about avoiding massive wads of incidental complexity.

Git is, if anything, far simpler than cvs in just about every way imo. I could see myself using subversion for a lark, but I'm very happy if I never have to touch cvs again.