Most of the time when I hear about pains of DVCS, it is when they are attempting to use it in a non-distributed way - without first having learned how to use th

Most of the time when I hear about pains of DVCS, it is when they are attempting to use it in a non-distributed way - without first having learned how to use the framework. Learning git or hg as cvs/svn++ is REALLY bad. I've personally lived through Flock using hg for several months only to abandon it for SVN (hg was version 0.6 and would eat our commits...) I've also had to help friends at companies who jumped on git without knowing how to use it, and hearing horror stories about everyone rebasing/rewriting history combined with a central repo. Honestly it makes me not promote git as much since I don't want to deal with the "svn++" mentality.