That's exactly why I provided Mercurial as an example. Mercurial is as complex a system as GIT, yet the commands are not close to being as messy as GIT's (or as

That's exactly why I provided Mercurial as an example. Mercurial is as complex a system as GIT, yet the commands are not close to being as messy as GIT's (or as numerous, for that matter, but it can still achieve the same things, as far as RCS is concerned). But you don't even have to compare it to anything else. GIT's lack of design and thought is completely evident at simply looking at how certain commands arbitrarily reverse the orders of source and dest params. This adds absolutely no value, and only makes things more difficult, even for experts. What it does do is display is a lack of thought and design. Which, as is evident, may not be an issue in professional circles, but is a huge problem in achieving success on the desktop, which will necessarily require usage by a lot of newbies and people who don't want to know much more about their computers than the location of the on switch and how they can get to Facebook.