> That's quite the odd statement It's odd only if you are new to DVCS. In the early days of git and hg, git commands were lots of plumbing and very little porc

> That's quite the odd statement It's odd only if you are new to DVCS. In the early days of git and hg, git commands were lots of plumbing and very little porcelain. At the time, most people switching from svn to a DVCS almost universally found hg a basically effortless switch. The success of git is due to 1) Linus fandom/cargo cult. 2) Ruby on Rails groupthink, and 3) Github. > If you need to know 50 commands to do daily work with a revision control service, that service is appallingly broken by design. Commands to type.