The author complains about DVCS in general but in fact it highlights what are mostly issues with the git+github combination. For example, if git blame is slow

The author complains about DVCS in general but in fact it highlights what are mostly issues with the git+github combination. For example, if git blame is slow as hell, I'm not sure that it would be much different if it was running on a central server The fact that Git has an atrocious UI isn't related to it being a DVCS either. For example I find that Mercurial has a nice UI that makes it much easier to use and less error prone than both Git and Subversion. The issues with Github again are not related to being a DVCS. In fact in that case Git is being used more like a centralized repo (push to one central repo, make a pull request from one repo on the server to another). What I miss in fact is an easy way to make a push or pull request directly to someone else. It would be nice to be able to do that from the command line through an IM handle for example.