It has saner defaults for a lot of workflows. Two small examples: stashing prompts you for a name (instead of defaulting to a useless name), and commiting will

It has saner defaults for a lot of workflows. Two small examples: stashing prompts you for a name (instead of defaulting to a useless name), and commiting will show the diff of what you're committing on the side (similar to commit -v). It also gives a rather nice in-editor workflow for adding a single hunk to the git index, which makes crafting sensible commits easier.