But what's the alternative? I dislike Git for its complexity, guns helpfully cocked and pointing at your feet, obscure commands etc. but still feel it's the bes

But what's the alternative? I dislike Git for its complexity, guns helpfully cocked and pointing at your feet, obscure commands etc. but still feel it's the best of the available tools. I really wanted to like Mercurial. UI seems much nicer. But there's no support from major tools. Cmdline tools are slow on startup - not Mercurial's fault as such, but affects me as the user - in particular waiting for the cmdline prompt showing Mercurial branch etc. Learning materials are a bit confused - so many different types of branches, a lot of popular materials seem out-dated, etc. Everyone in the whole world knows survival Git, very few know anything else. Long story short, if I were setting up a collaborative software project (be it commercial or FOSS), I would reluctantly but unwaveringly choose Git. Truth is, 95% of the time it doesn't get in the way of getting work done, and the remaining 5% is not worth going against the grain on all the above points.