I've never shied away from embracing complexity in trade of more power and/or flexibility wherever it brings me value. I run UNIXen as my desktops (Linux, Sola

I've never shied away from embracing complexity in trade of more power and/or flexibility wherever it brings me value. I run UNIXen as my desktops (Linux, Solaris, BSDs) even if it takes more understanding and tinkering than OS X, because in the end it's more powerful. I run my own email infrastructure instead of giving it up to gmail, because it's more flexible and powerful and I'm in control. And so on. But git? What a curse it is. I identify with the comments that liken it to hazing. A lot of pain to be inducted into the club, just for the sake of pain. No gain. I've been using source control systems for many decades and all of them have been tools that provide their value without being intrusive. Never have I had to fight a source control tool or take backups before every operation like with git. So that explains the hate, from my perspective. git came along and polluted a perfectly good tool space with something extremely user-hostile and didn't add any extra value (no, git did not invent distributed source control so that's not the explanation; I've been using distributed source control since the mid 90s and today I use mercurial wherever I get a choice).