There are lots of tools out there to try and make Git simpler/more user-friendly. There's also Mercurial, which is more user-friendly while still using the same

There are lots of tools out there to try and make Git simpler/more user-friendly. There's also Mercurial, which is more user-friendly while still using the same idea. Pijul is meant to model asynchronous work as just that, whereas Git forces it into a unique history. For example, in Pijul, "pull --rebase" and "pull" produce different history, but are guaranteed by design to produce the same result, and strictly equivalent repositories (there's actually just one command for both). This difference is fundamental.