I don't think there is a problem with the UI. I don't use git, but by the tone of the comments people seem to be unable to use it, and therefore blame the UI.

I don't think there is a problem with the UI. I don't use git, but by the tone of the comments people seem to be unable to use it, and therefore blame the UI. I think the real problem is the documentation, both official and unofficial. The best git intro I could find was gittutorial. It's OK, but a bit unfriendly. Everything else rapidly goes from telling you how to do stuff to teaching you how git works. If somebody came from SVN and told me that hg was unintuitive I'd tell them it's pretty easy, and they just have to get used to a slightly different model. Then I'd tell they to try hginit.com. I'd also point out how they can still work while the network is hosed, and that even if the server dies they still have all the history. Cool, isn't it? git users tell people to learn graph theory.