It could still be brilliant. Git's porcelain (the high-level commands you use day to day) has evolved a lot over the last few releases - e.g. "git mergetool".

It could still be brilliant. Git's porcelain (the high-level commands you use day to day) has evolved a lot over the last few releases - e.g. "git mergetool". Indeed a couple of years ago ISTR the recommended way for most developers to use git was with a third-party porcelain layer, but the built-in porcelain improved enough to be blessed and the third-party layer was deprecated.