[compiler-guy]

> There’s a meme that Git is hard to use but I think it’s conflating the challenges of getting used to version control at all, distributed version control, and any specific tool

That may be the case for some people, but far from all. Many people who started with cvs or even rcs and have moved on to the newer things as they have appeared still find got annoying and unintuitive. Especially compared to Mercurial.

You use it, because it is now the standard, but you are also very aware of how much cleaner and easier other systems have been.

[acdha]

My experience was comparing multople people who started with Mercurial and later learned Git, and had basically all of what people term “Git problems” with Hg because the hard part was thinking about distributed version control.

I’m not saying Git is perfect but simply that it’s hard to separate the difficulties from learning new concepts and working styles from the tool.