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Even when working on my own, I get a massive benefit from git. I think people end up being very polarised here.

The biggest benefit I get is that I can work on a set of changes as a set rather than a linear sequence that only ever goes forwards in time. I use microcommits. As I make progress on a feature, I discover necessary refactoring that I would ideally have been done before I started to add the feature. Interactive rebase allows me to make this so, and the result is that when I am done I can review my own work and check it for correctness with much more confidence than otherwise.

When working in open source, you're expected to provide a patch series for easy review. Git lets me produce such a thing with the same workflow.

Developers who don't wish to work this way, or are unaware of the benefits that this can bring, use git linearly and will see no benefit over Subversion.