I use Git for the same reason, although there's also Bitbucket and others for Hg. I don't want to act as an apologist for Git, because I think the user-interfac

I use Git for the same reason, although there's also Bitbucket and others for Hg. I don't want to act as an apologist for Git, because I think the user-interface could use some work (although I gather it was much worse earlier). I think at the end of the "Git from the bottom up" tutorial the author wishes the interface were better, but believes that Git will be the base upon which awesome things will be built. I don't know if anyone has tried to create a kind of porcelain-above-the-porcelain of Git, but that might be interesting, although from my experience with 3rd party Git GUI tools (Tortoise, EGit), many of which abstract details away, it can also be infuriating if done poorly. I don't think the current DVCS are the best thing ever possible, but I do think Git one of the best things we have now.