The different flavors of processes using git are where I see significant differences in how hard it is to use. GitHub/GHE encourages pull requests and force-pus

The different flavors of processes using git are where I see significant differences in how hard it is to use. GitHub/GHE encourages pull requests and force-pushing a candidate branch. Gerrit encourages a staged-commit via "refs/for/$dest_branch". Projects like QEMU and the Linux kernel are much more decentralized and leverage requests to pull from dev repos and email patches ('git send-email'). All of these differences have some impact on how you use git locally and how easy or difficult it is to recover when you make a misstep. Subjectively I think that - the staging area is unnecessarily confusing (mercurial did this better imo), and the overloading of 'checkout' causes confusion too.